Word: attractiveful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soundest phases of American music. There is a large demand throughout the country for good organists for church positions. The pay is not vast, but it is steady. There is a better and surer living in organ playing than there is in, say, poetry. The organist may attract fewer ecstatic phrases of admiration from esthetic ladies, but he is usually a better musician than the poet is a poet
...which attracted away many young men who never returned. If the salmon fisheries were ruined the population would still further decrease. The opening up of the mines and forest resources of the Territory demands capital in large amounts. Alaska is not a land of opportunity for the man without capital. But to attract capital it will be necessary to relax Government regulation...
Lord Grey, ex-Foreign Minister, said that both sides had cause for complaint. It was obviously unfair for America to let foreign ships attract the bulk of passengers by allowing them to take liquor into the territorial limit. On the other hand it was equally annoying for foreign ships to be deprived of liquor for the whole of the return journey. As Prohibition in the United States was likely to stand, he thought it was extremely advisable that the two Governments should reach an amicable arrangement. He further suggested that the two Governments should publish the full correspondence...
...presidents of two small colleges rarely attract so much notice as have President Meiklejohn of Amherst and President Atwood of Clark During the last weeks. The former has stood, in the popular mind, for progress in education, liberal views, innovations that promise well for the scholastic welfare of Amherst. Under his regime Amherst's prestige, among colleges of reputable scholarship, has risen materially. In other respects, too, the general opinion of Amherst has raised it to the first rank among institutions of its size. The "morale" of the undergraduate body is said to be unusually fine; President Meiklejohn...
Mountains seem to attract him more than anything else. In fact, the book might be called "Memories of Mountains", for there is not one essay which, sooner or later, does not describe the peculiarities of the country's mountain ranges. At times their purple majesty awed him, but generally craggy heights and shining glaciers were obstacles to surmount, in record time, if possible. I strongly suspect that Suvaroff's Alpine Campaign, which he tells of in an essay by that name, interested him mainly because it took place in the most beautiful part of Helvetia, and because he admired...