Word: attract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contestants for the Lee Wade and Boylston prizes for elocution must register for the competition before Monday, February 25, according to an announcement given out yesterday. These contests are held annually in Sanders Theatre during the first week of April, and always attract an excellent group of speakers, over 54 students participating in last year's competition...
...have men of similar academic tastes live together. This would not necessarily entail an arbitrary assignment of men according to designated fields of concentration; by grouping history tutors in one House and fine arts tutors in another, for instance, these Houses could be given distinctive characters which would attract to them students inclined toward their specialties. All the men who were working in the same field would have a chance to be in frequent communication with each other, an intellectual atmosphere and intellectual discussions would, thus provided with a basis of common interest and knowledge, tend to develop. Some even...
Cigarettes and coffee will be served freely. This should be enough to attract quite an attendance without the possibility of the added honor of being put in the academy of immortals between Charlie Chaplin and Babe Ruth...
...believe that if more of the Protestant Churches throughout the country would arrange their buildings, so that their members could make use of them seven days of the week, instead of on special service days, they would attract more to their cause and would allow for the worship of God by those who desire to do so during the week for prayerful meditation and quietude in the sanctuary...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture Corp. is showing in Manhattan & elsewhere a "talkie" adaptation of Paul Armstrong's Alias Jimmy Valentine.* It is a "sellout." But "sellout" or no, company directors last week felt that to attract more discriminating, intelligent patrons a certain silent scene would be improved by inserting the spoken words "Is that so?" The actor to speak, William Haines, was in Hollywood; the film to be improved, in Manhattan. Actor Haines spoke at a sound box; his three words were transmuted to a jiggly streak of light on a photograph film; the film sent...