Word: attract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rightly understood, there is no more sensational story of human experience. Society is made up of constants and variables. The variables attract us by their contrasts and are always appearing in the headlines. But the constants always predominate, always push ahead in the march of progress...
...will interest the ordinary spectator who wonders how a football machine is built. Vividly and simply. Roper writes of the most important phases of football life, gives sounder advice to coaches of football teams, and intermingles his advice and diagnosis with many anecdotes which are bound to attract the average reader. The book is evidently written to justify "non-scouting" agreements and to show how real "football spirit" can be instilled into eleven men who would "die for dear old Princeton...
...Strawn's summary of the Chicago mayor's campaign: "That the present agitation is a publicity move is proved by the fact that many of the books which have been destroyed were placed in the schools during Mayor Thompson's administration. The whole affair is apparently an effort to attract attention...
...Henry Guppy's term as president of the British Library Association ended last week and Edward James Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine replaced him at the association's jubilee meeting in Edinburgh. The chief significance of the succession lay in the ability of a librarian group to attract a potent citizen to their leadership...
...often that a champion learns the fickleness of public fancy while the crown still rests upon his brow. Gene Tunney, the first fighter to attract attention to pugilism from the intelligentsia of the country, whoever they are, has seen the laurel turn to poison ivy. The very people who had been won by his admiration of Carlyle, who yelled "Awake, arise!" into their loudspeakers during the seventh round, have turned upon...