Word: baits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Polo is the bait that lures him away from his native land. He is expected to take part in matches at Ranelagh, Hurlingham and Roehampton...
...York Times gobbled the bait and reproduced a translation of the letter " which, as far as can be ascertained, has not been published hitherto...
...professors derive no benefits from the injunction. But these note-sellers, like most note-sellers, entrapped their guileless and indolent prey by guaranteeing an extra 5 percent on the all-decisive law school examination. And misguided students, practically all first-year men, tell for the glittering bait, neglected their regular work, and accordingly failed...
...contrast, the time not many years past when men entering college were greeted by an invitation similar in content but couched in no uncertain terms, and brooking no refusal; and when no choir's "selections chosen especially for the occasion" were held out as a mildly alluring bait. Since those days we have enjoyed a freedom still unknown in many colleges. As a result some attend Chapel occasionally, a few with regularity...
...these awkward and meddlesome methods of taxation. In order to attract the farmer into this scheme, the program prescribes for him a more flexible and accessible credit system. The proposals for legislative control of the meat packing industry, and for the defeat of compulsory military training serve as bait to a large number of trusting people. At a time when private enterprise is in a weakened condition owing to unprecedented world-wide upheaval, such juggling with the nation's welfare is ill-judged to say the least. America wants reconstruction, but will not tolerate communism. Notin...