Word: tempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engineers are making a brave at tempt to hide their sorrow. They have even started search for a new song. But whatever they may produce, it will never have the inspiration of the old one. In years to come when memory has dimmed, and they chant hymns to Dame Nicotine instead of Lord Bacchus, they may, with the perpetual optimism of the human race, imagine that the substitute is "Just as good", that they have cheated the muse. But she will know better...
There are many reasons why an industry may not be able to pay expenses out of receipts. Expenses may simply be so high as to make it impossible to sell the product or the service at a price that will tempt buyers. There is no cure for that except to reduce expenses. If wages are the chief expense, that may necessitate a reduction of wages. If the laborers will not accept that, they remain unemployed. In that case they can not be said to be unable to find employment; they are only unable to find as remunerative employment as they...
...this new policy, once tried the ship owners were very enthusiastic. They found it paid to maintain regular schedules at lower rates, with good service. Coincidently with this the government put its own steamers on unprofitable routes, that is, routes on which there was not enough freight offering to tempt commercial liners to undertake them. The idea was that the existence of this service would create a business and encourage production. It had this effect and within a marvelously short time after these routes were established business became so good that commercial concerns would come to the government and offer...
...this broken-down Napoleon sits in his back yard, surrounded by as many private detectives as an Attorney General or a Pittsburgh millionaire. It must be a bitter pill for the great Poseur to have to pretend a demure shyness to tempt the photographers Lo, he used to treat Gott with condescension. But now he even bores the League of Nations. No one cares what becomes of him. He is de trop, passe...