Word: attractively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students elect Mathematics 2 unless they are required to do so. The demands of this course upon students are too great to attract the man who wishes to acquire a knowledge of Mathematics as part of a general education. However much he may desire mathematical training, the necessity of attending every meeting with a number of lengthy problems drives him to other less exigent fields. And thus instruction in a science upon which our mechanistic and economic culture is largely dependent is virtually denied to the average student...
Automobile manufacturers often wish that they could attract the patriotic fervor to their products that shipbuilders and steamship operators do to theirs. If, for example, British Austin Motor Co.. Ltd. should be forced to suspend "Baby Austin" production the average Briton would not feel called upon to do anything about it. But last month when Cunard Line felt it necessary to stop work on its 73,000-ton No. 534, British patriots reacted as to a national calamity. Retired colonels, war widows and schoolboys sent in small sums to Cunard Line; the Government was put under pressure to offer...
Years ago, and there is no concealing the fact that it was indeed years ago, when musical extravaganzas were still graceful as well as musical, the name of Marilyn Miller at the head of any cast served to attract even anxious mothers and conservative fathers, with their families, to the theatre districts of the country. And, indeed, the refreshing decency of productions like "Sally", for example, with its well-remembered musical score, was a welcome departure from the customary rot which American audiences usually patronize...
...annual report President Lowell points out the failure of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to attract men of high calibre in numbers at all comparable to the numbers doing graduate work in those of the Law, Medicine, or Business Administration. He declares the majority in the Graduate School to be "industrious rather than imaginative," and suggests more elastic regulation of study as a means of improving the quality of achievement. Improvement there must be, but it must come through a more drastic change than this...
...story: Few years ago Hinkler financed the building of a new small tandem-engined amphibian named the "Ibis," with funds made from his Australia flight. Unable to interest British capital he came to the U. S. in 1930. found capital even scarcer. Then a plan to make money, or attract backers, by a spectacular flight in a Lockheed fell through. Finally he drew from his small balance of life savings, bought the Puss Moth in Canada, got enough odd jobs in Toronto and New York to pay for the keep of himself and his plane. After long, secret tests...