Word: attract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flare for entering realms not his own is a curious and potent thing. The sea, the air, the jungle, the antipodes attract Irresistibly the craving for novelty so characteristic of humanity; and one needs no proof that this urge has been a tremendous factor in the progress in which each succeeding century takes pride. Success has perhaps gone a little to man's head; he takes mad chances and wins and in his cocksureness fails to take precaution in easier matters...
Then The Christian Century concluded sardonically: "As one reads this list of inducements, one cannot help wondering what sort of ministerial candidate it will attract. Another Polycarp? Or Athanasius? Or Francis? Or Luther? Or Latimer? Or Wesley? Or Brooks? Would it have caused the closing up of a carpenter shop in Nazareth...
...graduates are therefore entitled to consideration; that we are lacking in generosity not only to our own graduates but to those of Yale in providing them with fewer seats for the Cambridge games than the Yale authorities provide our graduates for Bowl games; that a larger Stadium would not attract a larger "public" crowd; and finally that the cost of enlarging the Stadium could easily be paid for out of the excess profits within a period of ten years without in any way changing the present "athletics-for-all" policy...
...prompted by the success, of the Freshman Common Rooms. At first these also were little used, although they were equipped with everything that a modern club usually has, such as a piano, comfortable lounges, chairs, magazines, and a few books. But the rooms for some reason failed to attract the Freshmen until the idea of having some of the proctors start discussion groups after dinner was initiated. A fire was kept going all the time and coffee was served. The Common Rooms are now a success, as is evidenced by the large number of first year men who make...
Your announcement of new TIME advertisers for 1928 is obviously intended to attract still more advertisers to your sheet. Yet you have the insolence to illustrate this announcement with three thugs in the act of reading TIME. One of them wears an ill-fitting suit, a sloppy hat, and has a cigaret drooping from his mouth. Another has a dented derby pulled down over his face. The third, I must admit, seems to be a rather high-grade thug. Do you think national advertisers will come running to your office, if TIME readers are really as you depict them...