Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That policy has at its foundation the American demand for team play. Sports for individuals are enjoying a rise in popularity, but the College man's emphasis is still overwhelming upon group athletics. And it is demonstrable that such activity, if it is to attract men and hold their interest, must be under the direction of able, trained coaches. Certainly that policy has been adhered to by Harvard for many years, and its success argues forcibly for continuation. To effect such drastic economies as an immediate balancing of the budget probably necessitates, would, bring about two results fatal to that...
...overpowered in a turret of the Doom castle of Wilhelm Hohenzollern was a German armed with parabellum (50-shot automatic gun) and 12-in. dagger. To police he explained that he bore a message from Adolf Hitler, that he planned to fire the gun in the air to attract the ex-Kaiser's attention, to use the dagger on watchdogs. Hustled back to Germany, he was identified as one Heinrich Fuecker, onetime inmate of both prison and asylum. Wilhelm Hohenzollern shrugged off the incident: "It's nothing. The fellow is probably...
...social influence, the nerve center of the House always will be the Tutors and the coordinating direction of the Masters. In the matter of intramural athletics it has been the aim of our department not merely to provide gymnasia, playing fields, rowing facilities, squash and tennis courts, and to attract as many students as possible, but to interest them in exercising regularly. It is here we too are satisfied that the answer is the coach. The coach of an intercollegiate team is almost always an expert in the sport he is teaching. The coach of less formal teams is usually...
...book too much that is purely personal, too much that sounds like the "Locomotive God." He is not an Austrian princess, and there is little in his experiences with sex which makes the large dosage of harlots in the book anything more than a cheap way to attract readers...
...ideas are not intrinsically exciting and that one's own life isn't interesting to one's self." Hiding her personal pronoun behind her name, she writes of herself sometimes as 'T." some-times as ''Mary." The rising generation may find little to attract them in aging Mary Austin's reminiscences, but more than a few intransigeant oldsters will read them and sigh...