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Word: coax (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...would be wrong to lure and coax Indian representatives to the round table conference over here with vague phrases about Dominion status when it is quite certain that these Indian politicians will not obtain Dominion status in their life-times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Peace Terms | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

Long have Progressive Republicans in Wisconsin tried to coax Philip LaFollette into standing for election to high State office. Second son of the late great Robert Marion LaFollette, brother of Wisconsin's Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") LaFollette, he has a name and a talent which might work political magic in his State. But Brother Phil, lawyer and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, short-time District Attorney of Dane County, whirlwind campaigner for Brother Bob, was in no hurry. He silenced "drift talk," insisted he was "too young" (he is now 33), kept Progressive leaders waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: LaFollette v. Kohler | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

Every two years President-elect Chase will receive from the State Legislature ever $12,000,000 which he must spend wisely on the upkeep of 14 schools and departments, in addition to whatever appropriations he will be able to coax from purse-wary politicians to finance further pedagogical projects. There will be a faculty of some 1,400 teachers and research ers' to bully, cajole, flatter. Greatest trust of all will be a student body, 14,000 strong, which lives in 124 fraternity and dormitory houses, goes to watch "Big Ten" football games in a $2,000,000 cement basin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: U. of Illinois | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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