Word: attract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feature most likely to attract attention is the proposal that a change should be made in the law relating to railroad consolidations so that voluntary amalgamation may be encouraged and expedited. The President believes that consolidation is the only feasible method for the maintenance of an adequate system of transportation and satisfactory adjustment of freight rates. His proposals merit thoughtful consideration. Yet those who appreciate the magnitude and difficulty of the task may shake their heads when they read that the entire freight rate structure of the country should be reorganized and that such action should be reorganized and that...
...some of the time at least the facilities which the University has to offer might be devoted to the use of men who wished to engage in these sports in a purely informal way. Basket ball played with his particular friends and largely on his own volition would attract the man who would never think of "going out" for the basketball team...
...that football has gone out in a splash, Harvard collectively may pause for a moment to choose new gods to worship. Basketball, squash, winter track, fencing, wrestling, and boxing will command their followers, but the winter major sport, hockey, will attract more than any of its lesser rivals...
...structure which dwarfs the present one. But for undergraduates of today there is no game in all past history which can compare with the one in the little stadium across the river, and games and stadiums of the future may care for themselves and wait their turn to attract their future tens of thousands...
...great success at present, "The Deluge", by Henning Berger, and Philip Moeler's "Sophie", which are coming in the next month, would never find their way to any of the larger Boston theatres. Only a limited public is interested in anything besides musical comedy,--a public too small to attract the big-theatre managers who know their business. At the tiny Peabody Play House, however, this small, but discriminating minority can easily supply audiences for the short runs of two weeks. And since the Guild wants only enough to pay expenses, it should be entirely successful...