Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard graduates actually meet in the Yankee Stadium will the report of the game scheduled for October 30 be more than half-believed. To arrange the teams is a difficult project for even C. C. Pyle. If played, the game will doubtless be a financial success, and will attract wide publicity. It will do nothing, however, toward "burying the hatchet" between Princeton and Harvard. For the hatchet has been buried ever since the break eleven months ago, and the resumption of athletic relations must await the time when a Princeton-Harvard undergraduate contest will not cause the reappearance of this...
...presidential candidacy only defeat their own ends by giving him a chance to hit back. A successful fight will not be directed against his governorship--he has done his gubernatorial duties too well. It must rather deal in obscure appeals to racial and religious prejudice; if it hopes to attract either vigorous denial or assent...
...what type of man would most attract such a young woman (remember, she is earnest, honest)? Well, how about a mature, reticent, adventure-scarred world traveler. He should be enormously courageous, enormously patriotic; should have passed through incredible (almost) adventures and come out enormously modest?and of course unmarried. Let's see? the times are getting so Elizabethan?perhaps he ought to be so thoroughly a man of action that he swears occasionally and, yes, has had to know women, very wicked ones, in the course of his thrilling duty. His name could be Dessiter ? Colonel Dessiter. It might...
...Atlantic City, N. J., Joseph Snyder, two, found himself forgotten. To attract someone's attention he tossed pebbles, large ones little ones at the shiny car of Charles Nash. Soon, in this way, he attracted the attention of Charles Nash who caused him to be arrested and taken to court, charged with malicious mischief. Here, a positive cynosure, Joseph Snyder burbled and gurgitated when the Magistrate Delger demanded that the prisoner be produced. "Where is he?" said the court, "I do not see the defendant." When the defendant, a sticky looking wad held in the arms of Mrs. Snyder, became...
...country has broken out in a rash of airplane companies, if one credits the flow of items which bubble up each morning to attract the newspaper reader. The latest project is a New York-to-Chicago airway; there to connect with the Chicago-and-San Francisco planes, already operating. The fare will be $400; the flying time 32 hours. Trains take 90 hours; cost...