Word: coax
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...suggested in a Southern journal that a better plan than lies in compulsory education is to employ excellent teachers and to pay them, in addition to their salaries, a percentage on every unwilling or careless child whom they are able to coax into school. It is further suggested that a discount should be imposed on them for every child dropping out of the school, and that their salaries should be discontinued if they fail to keep up their schools...
...this amusement was not a balloon ascension at all but was diving after stones in muddy water) Span I was a three-legged race, and Gmn 6 a race backward. Various objects of interest were exhibited to amuse those who took no part in the active sports, and to coax away the pennies of the verdant. In one tent, N. H. 2, were the Living Skeleton and the Bearded Lady; in a second, Hist 5, were the Dwarf and the Big-headed Boy; and a third, N. H. 6, contained a large collection of vegetables, especially some beets of mammoth...