Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From an architectural viewpoint, he explained that Memorial Hall, constructed in 1878 at a cost of $370,000, represented an architectural period which "cannot be highly regarded for its appeal in design...
...result is that journalism has little appeal for students. In a 1956 survey of 5,280 high-school boys in the top 5% of their classes, only 1.5% planned careers in the entire communications field; eleven times as many students were interested in science research and 22 times as many planned to become engineers...
LEONARDO DA VINCI (518 pp.; Reynal; $35) is one of those rare books that does justice to a man of genius. It is more than just big and beautiful, and its appeal does not stop with art lovers, for Leonardo may well have possessed the greatest creative intelligence in human history. The paintings alone (La Gioconda. The Last Supper, Portrait of a Young Woman) would have been quite enough to ensure his place in world art-and the major ones are here, in color, on pages large enough to illustrate his mastery, his humanity and his imaginative understanding...
Freshmen can still appeal to the President of the University, as two freshmen with poor heating can testify. Two Yardlings wrote a letter to President Pusey to protest the "chronic lack of heat" in South Weld, and by the next day, the Buildings and Grounds Department had installed new heating facilities in the dormitory...
Amicus Curiae. In Miami, after being fired by the city commission, City Attorney Olavi M. Hendrickson was given instructions by the mayor to appeal a Circuit Court ruling that restored him to his job, declined to do so, on the grounds that "the decision was eminently correct, and an appeal would be a waste of time and money...