Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negroes stood firm, and white complacency turned to fury. Rumors were spread that boycott leaders had used mass-meeting funds to buy themselves Cadillacs. Older Negro preachers were taunted for having yielded their seniority to a young whippersnapper. To lure the Negroes back onto the buses, the Montgomery city commission called in three hand-picked Negro ministers (who had been on the edges of the boycott) and persuaded them to agree to settlement terms that had little if any practical meaning. The commission's plan was to announce the settlement in Sunday's papers, but Saturday night word...
...even greater commitment on time and energy is the grade system, which lures--and always will lure--the student away from independent study until independent study is incorporated into the grade system. This is one reason that the thesis is so successful: it eventually receives a grade--an evaluation of a (presumably) scholarly piece of work by established scholars in the field. But when it comes to a choice between preparing for tutorial or studying for the encumbrances which automatically come with a grade system--term papers, hour exams, finals, generals--, it is only the powerfully-willed student who will...
...even greater commitment on time and energy is the grade system, which lures--and always will lure--the student away from independent study until independent study is incorporated into the grade system. This is one reason that the thesis is so successful: it eventually receives a grade--an evaluation of a (presumably) scholarly piece of work by established scholars in the field. But when it comes to a choice between preparing for tutorial or studying for the encumbrances which automatically come with a grade system--term papers, hour exams, finals, generals--, it is only the powerfully-willed student who will...
...lure Burns away from Booz, Allen, RCA gave him a ten-year contract providing for a $150,000 salary, with in creases to $200,000 over the next five years (plus an option on RCA stock). But it was not money that drew Burns to RCA. Says he: "I am attracted by the challenge." At RCA, new President Burns will find no shortage of challenges...
Finally, Yale coach Jordan Olivar has reportedly been offered the coaching job at the University of Southern California. Although similar past rumors have taken him west it is possible that as the years go by his business interests in California might lure him to the West Coast appointment which would presumably carry a higher salary, as well as a larger degree of freedom in obtaining top football talent. He previously coached at Loyola of Los Angeles...