Word: attract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court did not decide the case last week. But the pay of the lawyers continued. Large sums they were, because the litigants, both potent in Wall Street, went to Wall Street for their legal aid. And Wall Street, because it does attract financial genius, ipse facto attracts legal genius...
...should, as heretofore, cover the activities of the whole University. The graduate schools have never shown enough interest in the Register to subscribe. On the other hand, the Register is run more for the sake of the information it contains than for the number of subscribers it will attract...
Whether these changes will attract or repel the paying customer, whose enthusiasm may have been slightly dampened by recent exposition and interment of "scandals," is subject for heated discussion in circles where subjects are scarce. They are sure, however, to stimulate sale of scorecards "giving names of players and c'reck batting order...
...result of an educational system conducted on this basis, with the school valued on account of the number of students that it can attract, or the advertising value of the stamp that its name can put on the graduate, is fatal to real scholarship. It misses the mark of culture altogether--so that one may say that the more scholars the country has the less scholarship it has to show. The essential fault of our national attitude toward education is our disposition to regard it as a commodity like any other, to be regulated by the law of supply...
...second arrest was brought about by that primate of prudence, Anthony Comstock, whose vestments Reformer Sumner inherits. Mr. Comstock only succeeded in causing the Macfadden beauty show of 1905 to attract mobs that nearly burst Madison Square Garden. It was still an affair of tights?a source, perhaps, of some of the rancor in Mr. Macfadden's charges of fraud (which brought him libel suits totaling four millions) against the 1926 beauty contest at Atlantic City, held with scant emphasis on costume, by eminent bankers and businessmen...