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...immunity? It means simply Chat in order to maintain their circulation the publishers of the tabloids have to look around for a new case which has seme hitherto unexplored variation of the sexual theme. . . .* This new journalism is like the procurer to an old roue who has daily to tempt him with new excitements...
Indra, sensing a challenge to his power in the superhuman purity of Saradvat, an holy man, sent a celestial nymph to tempt him. The celibate, seated in austere nakedness upon the ground, "fixed his eyes upon himself" and resisted temptation...
...high noon today, a hastily organized squash team composed of managers of University sports, will at tempt to put sand, in the smoothly running wheels of the CRIMSON racquet squad. The scribes, after subduing the fast moving H. A. A. Aggregation on the courts last Tuesday, are confident of taming the towel tossers in today's encounter...
...Extending the hours of labor made it possible for the coal owners to offer higher wages and thus tempt the miners back to work through the "door" of regional agreements which they would not have contracted at the seven-hour wage...
...1825eethed, and betrayed acute concern while the Lords debated the anti-strike bill jammed through the Commons by Premier Baldwin (TIME, July 12) to lengthen coal mine working hours temporarily from seven to eight so that the owners can offer a wage high enough to tempt the miners back to work...