Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea over. Anyone who can shed new light on athletics has little need for fifty proven strong men to help him. He should be writing for the newspapers. Single handed he could command a larger sum for a single Sunday appearance than his whole stage full of helpers will attract in a winter. The daily Sartores Resarti of the sport situation support unnumbered experts; a new phase of athletics would be a wow even though as untailored as any Vanities that ever trod a board...
With the 1928 presidential campaign rapidly approaching its climax, with the University political machines making frantic efforts to attract undergraduate adherents to their respective causes, and with the Hoover-Smith controversy being aired from every rostrum in the country the history of the past political drives at Harvard has a special significance in a prognostication of how University men will cast their votes coming November...
...field would be left open to those needing financial aid. While the proportion of ability might be as large in this group, the competition for a lucrative position would attract many whose efforts at earning had better be directed to other jobs, and the result might be disastrous to many...
Fifty-three per cent of the marrying Alumnae of Radcliffe attract Harvard husbands. But five per cent of them reach out after M. I. T. men. This fact must be considered significant. Why should Harvard men be favored in such preponderance? The obvious answer is to be found in the superiority of the Coop and Widener Library as trysting places over the barren laboratories of the, Technological Institute...
...typically Fascist tax levies upon each English word displayed upon an advertising sign to attract tourists. Thus an innkeeper is taxed for two English words if he displays over his Alberso the sign "Grand Hotel...