Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frenchmen thoroughly expected therefore that, having voted against the Radical Socialists, the next Premier would be a Radical Socialist-Edouard Daladier, two-time Premier. As a matter of fact, M. Daladier is far more Socialistic in sympathy than most of his fellow party members, hence will attract the support of the Popular Front...
Secretary Duff Cooper was doing his best to attract recruits into the service last week. The base pay of the British soldier has been raised from 27? to 50? a day about ⅔ as much as the U. S. buck private.' If his ability to polish boots and clean pipes wins him a job as an officer's servant, he can count on another $5 a month, and if he stays in the army long enough to win the stripes, red sash and silver-headed cane of a sergeant, he can earn more than $17.50 a week...
...Portland that Reed is a bed of radicalism. President Keezer is known to have worn bright red duck pants on the campus, but to the calmer observer the president seems merely to be airing out academic sanctity. He prods bookworms into skiing trips, but makes no effort to attract or hold playboys to Reed...
...work done, under manifold difficulties, been even more surprising. Yet the departmental budget has advanced in no like proportion, has, in fact, remained almost stationary. Intimately connected with many previously noted criticisms is the Department's unhappy position of financial rigidity. It is no simple task, for example, to attract brilliant assistants with a mere pittance. Neither is it easy to keep the tutorial system up to par at the same time that new lecture courses are being steadily added to the curricula, for the lecture system ranks first in importance at Harvard and there are no available funds...
...village's chief support and eventually Master of Foxhounds of its swank Craven Hunt and president of the Hungerford Fat Stock Show. In neither of these squirely retreats did he discuss his third life as a concession-wangler among Eastern potentates whose Oriental courage and vanity genuinely attract him and whom he, like the late great T. E. Lawrence, genuinely impresses...