Word: tempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They also want to tempt us to fire with automatic arms in order to get our position...
Revenge, the precious instrument of nature which goaded Satan to tempt Eve, and caused the death of Socrates, is with us now, hanging on a small wall of the Germanic Museum. Never before has the element of vengeance entered the realm of art and music, but in a series of pen sketches by Oberlaender, entitled "Piano's Revenge," a new vista of conjecture is opened for those who appreciate the rare combination of real humor and fine craftsmanship...
...American To Do His Duty), is to be published in the U. S.* Covering the hectic years of 1932-39, most of the car toons have kept their timeliness surprisingly well. His interpretation of the "Open Door," drawn in 1934, anticipated by five years Japan's present at tempt to drive foreign interests out of China, an eventuality which the British Government at that time thought highly improbable. The drawing of the gorged wolves appeared on Dec. 2, 1938, shortly after Polish troops occupied Teschen, completing the post-Munich occupation of Czecho-Slovak territory. The Spanish dancers were drawn...
Most ominous was Pravda's comment: "Superfluous collective farmers" will be shipped to regions where farm labor is needed. Peasants, who know too well that this means the arid lower Volga, the Siberian Far East where the Soviet Union finds it difficult to tempt settlers by normal means, trembled in their greasy hip boots, wondered if this was the first shot in a new war against the peasants...
...live. The problem arises from the fact that the salary of the junior teachers is, in many cases, insufficient to support a wife and family in a decent style in Cambridge. In their recent report The Committee of Eight stated: "the unsatisfactory housing and schooling conditions in Cambridge now tempt young teachers with relatively small salaries to live elsewhere or to add to their incomes by doing outside work which interferes with their scholarly pursuits...