Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major defects of the elementary schools arises from the calibre of the teachers which they attract, and the attitude these teachers have toward their work. The rapid turnover in collegiate faculties probably is surpassed by the lower schools. The chief reason for this is of course, financial, since the low salaries of the profession makes it distasteful or impracticable to many for whom it would otherwise be a congenial lifework. As a result, most teaching positions in the lower schools are filled by women, to most of whom, teaching is merely a temporary occupation before marriage. This fact naturally reflects...
...study for every year of service, required by that state, is a measure of the problem rather than a solution of it. The courses offered by Harvard to teachers in service, leading to the degree of master of education, represent a more genuine attempt at improvement. Unfortunately, such opportunities attract chiefly those of superior ability, while the rank and file of the profession are not influenced by them. The central problem, to create a superior brand of personnel, remains hardly touched. A further step in that direction would be to restrict teaching by women to the first five grades...
...Time was when the United States could practice extreme protection with no disastrous consequences to itself or the rest of the world. This is no longer possible. We are now the second largest creditor nation in the world; adherence to our traditional, policy means that we shall attract gold in great volume and jeopardize the gold standard in many countries whenever we fall to lend abroad on a large scale. A few people mistakenly believe that our recent heavy gold losses indicate that our pull upon the world's gold supply has ceased. But these losses are only temporary...
...only has Playwright Barry concerned himself so far with writing about only one group of characters?the domestic equivalent of These Charming People ?but these are the only kind which attract him. To play in his two ultrasocialite comedies, Paris Bound and Holiday, was chosen the Barrys' friend Hope Williams, a smart young woman who had never set foot on the professional boards before. And his good friend Donald Ogden Stewart acted the funniest role Playwright Barry has created to date: Nick, the easy-going gentleman in Holiday who extemporized on the invention of the bottle...
...this being true, Dr. Thomson proposes: "To organize an electro-magnetic 'hummer' which, at small expense of energy, can spread over a large space the peculiar hum, and attract the males; perhaps also repelling the females. Various ways of trapping the males may be suggested, as they need not be desiccated or cooked to get rid of them...