Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most popular professors, he is also credited, through his writings, with an increased attendance in philosophy courses at other colleges as well. As a teacher of philosophy he no longer runs the risk of being called cute. As a philosopher in his own right, he might still tempt some old philosopher...
...London Non-intervention Committee after 24 months of quarreling and petty dickering, was in effect a plan to ease international tension by getting foreign soldiers out of Spain. Before the elaborately painstaking plan could be carried out, Spain's Rightists and Leftists had of course to accept. To tempt them into agreement, concessions were tentatively offered to both factions. Held out to Rightist Spain was the plum of belligerent rights which would legalize a blockade of Leftist Spain's ports. For Leftist Spain was a tempting offer of a "proportionate withdrawal" of foreign volunteers. Since the Rightist Army...
...chaplain of the Canadian forces during the War. But almost everything taught him a lesson; when he could barely lift his arms after paddling a canoe on remote Lake Wanapitei, he found that "you don't forget what you learn through suffering." Only enjoyment that did not tempt him to moralize was listening to bagpipes. Whether he heard them in Edinburgh or in his family parlor, he gave himself up to wholehearted love for "the throbbing of the drones and the wild shriek of the chanter...
...build the 94-man NBC Symphony, snooped around the concert halls of several U. S. cities, succeeded in luring key men from the Detroit Symphony and other Midwest orchestras. Symphonic managers all over the U. S. shivered in their boots, fearing that NBC's juicy contracts might tempt their most prized performers. Manager Alfred Reginald Allen of the famed Philadelphia Orchestra tried to placate the NBC menace by offering the loan of his players ''at any time," including his two world-famous instrumentalists-suave Oboist Marcel Tabuteau and courtly, grey-haired Flutist William Kincaid...
Last week What People Said, a 614-page, dramatic first novel, laid in imaginary Athena, Oklarada. offered the first work of fiction to tempt comparison with Middletown in Transition. On the surface Author White's Main Street still looks much as it did in Main Street and Babbitt. Like Sinclair Lewis. Author White gives no solution for Main Street's inhibiting culture, offers no antagonist capable of creating a better one. But Author White's novel carries an undercurrent, nowhere found in Lewis' books, of those acute undersurface tensions detected by the Lynds...