Word: beckoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still another hurdle has loomed for the Freshmen's initiation into the collegiate track circuit. The 30-man squad has evinced a treasonous interest in spring football and baseball, an interest which on a beckon from Art Valpey has threatened to slice the 30 men to a piddling 13 and has kept the lineup in a state of flux...
...pioneers find? A vast land, raw, primitive and barely scratched by civilization after 80 years of U.S. ownership. A frontier society-easygoing, vigorous, elementally democratic-at its worst unabashedly bad, at its best unaffectedly generous. Opportunity-but at the price of a stiff endurance test. And to beckon the pioneers on, for good or ill, the deceptive promise of an economic boom (begun by the war, protracted by the proximity of Asiatic Russia), and the deceptive intensity of the brief Alaskan summer...
...remedy has been to refine the plane's lines, polish the skin. Such tricks push the speed limit upward. But they succeed at a fearful price. Above 600 m.p.h. the slightest irregularity may beckon a fatal wave out of the speeding...
...population; that every bellhop has a ready pint or quart; that mixed drinks are served at the Rainbo, the Northern Star, the It'll Do Club; that to get a fifth of Old Granddad (unavailable in Kansas City) at Meadow Acres Ballroom, all you have to do is beckon the "Soup Man" and fork over...
...Canadian educators, added Educator Brebner, are "stupid"-most Canadian scholars and teachers are paid so little "that a very large proportion of their potential usefulness is continuously being poured down the sewer of . . . drudgery and hackwork for other income." Thus they yield quickly when American universities and laboratories beckon. "One can predict the uproar in the press and parliaments of Canada if the United States tried to buy a single Canadian island. . . . But the never-ending loss of scholars passes without comment...