Word: attract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show a maximum amount of nudity compatible with retention of second-class mailing privileges. Within the cover one finds the same theme played up. ... Nor is the male neglected. Macfadden himself in various stages of undress, and various other supermen with little on but a surcingle doubtless attract many quarters? from girls and women who feel the biologic urge...
Next Sunday's lecture will be given by Dean W. L. Sperry of the Theological School, who will speak on "The Actual Teaching of Jesus Himself." It is expected that with the enlarged seating equipment, the lecture course will attract an even greater number of men. The four previous lectures have been attended by 615, 268, 416, and 300, respectively...
...Harvard contests. While the rivalry between Yale and the Army is probably not so intense as that between the Big Three, the annual battle has become one of the greatest spectacles in intercollegiate football. The military manoeuvres performed by some 1200 cadets in the Bowl, prior to the game, attract thousands that ordinarily take little interest in the gridiron classics...
From these reports it would seem that Roman idealism attracts the Syracusans. Indeed, it is not strange that an institution of learning which starts with an a priori preconception of truth should extend hearty welcome to Papini. "The massive brain and eagle eye" of the Methodist Church presides over the destinies of young Syracuse, and brings it up in the way it should go. Not only does this tend to promote among undergraduates that state of mind called "Fundamentalism", but also to attract embryonic Fundamentalists to its sympathetic bosom...
...origin, nature and function of this "abstraction called the Law" which records the past and profesies what the future will be. It is written in a style which will satisfy the most exacting professional precisionist and will, at the same time, be clear to the layman and attract all who delight in the deft and gracious use of English...