Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot be lightly cast aside. Masterpieces of the taxidermist's art, having served long and faithfully in the Peabody Museum, may be forcibly removed from their perches. The heads of elk and bison which have looked down from the walls in the Union upon generations of Harvard men would tempt any kleptomaniacal collector of mounted beasts. Beware the Jabberwock...
...junior college movement has not had time to make clear its full meaning. In so far as it aims to tempt the able and more ambitious minds from the schools to seek training beyond the obligation limit of 14 years, and to make easier the elimination of minds not fit for the advanced work of the university, it is a wholesome movement. But its danger, too, is the inrush of the multitude which no man can handle, at least upon the high lands of calm thought and effective intellectual training...
...Navy still employs gaudy posters and mans its recruiting stations with nattily dressed sailors-not to tempt the satisfied civilian but to inform him of the opportunities the Navy has to offer...
...realized that King Alexander was not giving up so much. Strengthened by several members of the last parliamentary regime, the Cabinet he has had through the dictatorship remains in power. The Constitution forbids the organization of racial or religious groups which might threaten his government. There is an at tempt to stop political assassinations by solemnly reviving a 120-year-old law providing that all Senators and Deputies must leave their pistols, their daggers and their bludgeons in a special check room before entering Parliament. What Jugoslavian citizens really receive is an increase in local autonomy, a chance to vote...
...When business is good in the business world the U. S. Navy has to advertise with gaudy posters and man its recruiting stations with nattily dressed sailors to tempt the satisfied civilian. Many recruits, once in, get out by the simple expedient of going and staying A. W. 0. L. (absent without leave). For long-continued absence-without-leave the Navy has a harsher name: Desertion. The penalty in peacetime may be 30 days bread and water; in wartime it is death. In 1927, 1,092 men deserted the Navy. Since then the number has steadily declined: in 1928 there...