Word: attract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fine plays, like all fine art, are produced only with care and deliberation-expensive commodities. Able playwrights will not entrust their plays to financially insecure managers. But financially secure managers acquire fine plays, which in turn attract fine actors, directors...
...entrusted with the navigation of any vessel who does not occasionally take a glance around the horizon. Such a proper lookout will disclose . . . any Coast Guard boat . . . signaling you to stop. The Coast Guard boat will use her whistle or horn or a megaphone or visual signals ... to attract your attention. ... It may be necessary for the Coast Guard craft to fire a blank warning shot. If these fail to produce any result, the Coast Guard vessel is then justified in firing warning shots well clear of the fleeing craft and in assuming that she is endeavoring to escape...
...constant presence. As yet the funds for such a functionary have not been provided, but it is seldom that a good cause must cry unheard forever. It is to be hoped that the many unusually appealing features of the scheme so far excellently projected by Mr. Winship may attract the interest of the generously inclined who have an eye to the amenities of college education...
...bold spirits who have summarily resigned before the expiration of the usual term, have done so with the disapprobation of the officials. Under the new system all taint of the social sin of "backing out" will be removed, certainly a more comfortable situation and one likely to attract many men otherwise frightened away by the necessity of signing articles...
...cloak and suit patterns for $17 a week. Twenty-five years ago, when feature pictures were 500 feet long, Cineman Fox opened, in Brooklyn, his first theatre. Nobody came to see the show, so finally he hired sleight-of-hand artists to do tricks in the lobby and attract a crowd. There followed many a theatre in Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, and eventual expansion into one of the world's most colossal enterprises ruled...