Word: lure
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argument that by this new system outsiders can more easily be excluded may be logical enough, but certainly in this case, the lure is not worth the game. The question of financial advantage, however, is much more difficult to oppose; for the new feature, though of itself unpopular, adds new value to, and should increase the sales of, the participation books. But here again the same answer should, in the end, apply. It is all very well to encourage men to take up athletics; but unless the rate policy is based rather upon the budget of the individual student than...
...means utilized literally to compel men to sign for the twenty-one meal ticket. Twenty-one meals a week will cost nine dollars; fourteen meals would be priced at $.7.75. Between the two limits one finds seven meals for $1.25, truly a seductive figure in these days, to lure men into House Dining Halls. But even this can be justified by calling to mind the "fundamental principles" of the House Plan...
...achieved this beaten, despairing air which is typical of the breed. In addition, he gives impression of quiet power and earnestness which enable him to across a hard luck story in a thoroughly moving fashion: to express the wronght sentimentality which accompanys the hackneyed thesis of "the lure of the theatre" with surprising conviction. His humor is natural, forced, at times naive. But the "Happy Farrell of Carroll and Farrell, Song Dances, and Funny Sayings' 'takes himself and his woes so seriously that missed the optimism and dash which we usually associate with song dance men. He was perhaps...
...these words a fundamental objection to university business schools, as they now are, is stated. They poison the atmosphere of the university. They lure immature young bachelors of arts into money-making when the universities ought to be doing precisely the reverse, and they do it under the pretense that business is 'the oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions'. As a matter of fact it is neither--neither an old art nor a young art, neither an old profession nor a new one. It is neither an art nor a profession...
...charge of the President's attempt to lure some $1,300,000,000 in currency out of mattresses, old teapots, chimney corners and safety deposit boxes was Col. William Franklin Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News. For a fortnight Col. Knox had been busily creating what he named the Citizens' Reconstruction Organization to combat hoarding. Chairmen were appointed in all twelve Federal Reserve Bank districts. Each State and city was organized for a great educational drive commencing this week...