Word: attracting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Certain tutors will live in the Houses, others will have conference rooms in them and live elsewhere, but every student-in a given House will have at least on resident tutor. These methods are admittedly experimental. It is hoped that each House will in time develop an individuality and attract students by their major interests...
...Wilmington, Mass., Walter Melinsky hopped about, gesticulated with his fingers, tried to attract the attention of a crowd of bathers. When bystanders finally realized the cause of his .antics it was too late to save his drowned companion, like himself a deaf mute, for whom he was summoning...
...near his farm. He protested, but the government paid little attention. Through months of talking and brooding the thought of winning that case became a mania eating up all his other thoughts. By degrees it developed a corollary. He felt that to get the hearing he wanted he must attract attention, make himself famous by some remarkable exploit or else hurt himself so badly and spectacularly that the British Government in South Africa and the whole world would listen when he told what a spectacular injustice had been inflicted upon...
President Ernest Hatch Wilkins, of Oberlin College: "The technique of the army and navy will hardly serve. Pictorial posters placed about the campus, with instructors detached for recruiting duty, pacing up and down in academic costumes would attract more missiles than missionaries. Teaching must be attractive . . . interesting . . . afford chance for distinction and for service; and it must give promise of financial competence for happy family life...
Large scale advertising (THAR'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS, STRANGER-MILLIONS WILL PLAY) serves both to attract buyers and players. The eloquent Tom Thumb booklet explains: "Passersby see the course, they see people putting-they stop-they lean on the fence surrounding the course-they watch the ball as it travels toward the cup-they scream-they laugh . . . they are fascinated-they want to play-they do play . . . they laugh-they scream-they groan-at last they are playing golf...