Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Bernard Shaw scribbled on a postcard, "Plays of that author do not attract me; I never go to one if I can possibly help it," sent the postcard to Welwyn Garden City, Herts, England, where he had been invited to attend a performance of his Saint Joan...
...private powermen would accept his theories of rate-making. Since utilities are usually monopolistic, it is universally accepted that for the best public interest their rates should be established and regulated by law. The general theory is that rates should be only high enough to yield enough profit to attract the new capital the industry constantly needs. Rates are therefore based upon the value of the utility property involved. All methods of valuation are more or less arbitrary but they tend to run toward two extremes: 1) what it would cost to reproduce the property and 2) what the property...
...chapel with a folding altar, which can be opened for outdoor meetings. There is space in the trailer for phonograph records, sound film equipment, a public-address system. By last week Fathers Cunningham and Halloran were well accustomed to parking St. Lucy in likely spots, playing phonograph records to attract a crowd and then exhibiting about 50 minutes of religious movies with a 20-minute sermon sandwiched between. Said Father Cunningham before they left Manhattan: "They can take it down there. If you give a 15-minute sermon you're a sissy...
...undergraduate had drowned his carefreeness with much potent liquid and was speeding merrily, if not somewhat like a May Pole dance along a suburban turnpike. Unluckily an innocent automobile blocked his way; he did not hit it hard, but hard enough to excite the driver, arouse hot words, and attract a state policeman who was parked nearby...
...most interesting photographs in the collection is that of the studio of Diego Rivera in San Angel, "a quiet suburb of Mexico City." Another work bound to attract attention is that of "Devotees at the Capilla del Pocito," which was taken at a spring in Guadalupe. Here, tradition holds that a spring with miraculous healing powers burst from beneath the feet of the Virgin of Guadalupe about...