Word: attractiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became engaged under her mother's unsuspecting nose. When she went back to Kossovia, Patrick followed to clinch matters. Arrived in Novograd, he found Marie's return had been delayed; meantime he discovered old schoolmates there and began to enjoy Kossovian society. Beautiful Eurydice had begun to attract him even before his airplane crash; afterwards, he had no eyes for anyone else and could not remember ever having seen Marie before. But Eurydice, having more political fish to fry, gave Patrick only cool encouragement. When the fish were well cooked and the government overturned, Patrick...
This new brightness is important in that it will attract the Laodiceans, in the college and go some way towards convincing them of the real value and place which the Advocate has in undergraduate life. It will be easier now to broaden the circle of contributors and subscribers both. Whether Pegasus is to undergo a qualitative as well as a physical metamorphosis, cannot yet be told, but the first stage of the change is an undoubted and encouraging success...
Certainly any regular call to the prospective football squad is to be strongly condemned. However, this spring's practice is to be entirely for those men who are not engaging in other sports, and no effort will be made to attract men participating in regular spring athletic activities. Indeed, most of the key men will be otherwise engaged this spring, so the football coaches cannot be justly accused of attempting to do much more than try out some new ideas on formations and give those men who enjoy the game and would be otherwise inactive a chance to play...
...limited appeal. It is neither the sort of thing that one would buy for inspiration or sheer amusement. As its title page suggests, it is a bibliography of books about printing and the technical side of book-production, their history and presentday adaptation. As a result, it will attract for the most part, those interested in fine books, in publishing and in printing treated...
...Tutors, and no man can be expected to concentrate entirely on Tutorial work. But there is justice in the assertion that the average run of Tutors can be definitely improved. Broadly speaking, an improvement in the quality of tutors is definitely dependent on an increase in salaries heads to attract the best men into the System. In days characterized by bright red balance sheets, such a proposal is naturally incongruous; for the increase in expense must be considerable. But if any improvement is to be made in this direction, and it is obvious that there must be a good deal...