Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swallow unquestionably much that a properly developed sense of humor would reject and to adbicate emotionally and intellectually at the call of the pack. As men grow to intellectual maturity they frankly hesitate to "die for dear old Rutgers," and as colleges grow in size and complexity they attract a larger proportion of such men, whose point of view spreads down and in the course of time infects even the members of the "cheering section." This is what has been happening at Harvard for more than half a century. But Princeton, cloistered in its small town and expanding much more...
Repertory companies attract the folks, whether the folks come from Commonwealth Avenue or Malden, because everyone knows everyone else, has his favorites, and yet delights in seeing not just one star or another, but the whole company, comparing their performance in one play with that in another. And now that Mr. Clive is to be the whole play, only his admirers can get any satisfaction out of their attendance...
...American prosperity made this country go off at a tangent, but once there, everybody rather enjoyed it and is still enjoying it. It is far too soon to suppose that Americans will come back to the little cube of ice, when there are so many more delightful things to attract...
...each team. Because of the short time remaining before the two debates, candidates will be chosen as soon as possible, and the work of serious preparation started. The question is one which offers abundant opportunity for witty, argumentation and repartee, and by its very nature is expected to attract a large number of aspiring speakers...
...limiting the power of removal to that minimum possessed by the President over the higher federal judges such opportunity would be removed. In the third place the development of the Junior College should be fostered and encouraged. It is to be expected that these institutions, once well established, will attract away from the universities those annual hundreds of men and women who, frankly do not belong there, and on whom, ultimately rests the responsibility for much of the juvenile absurdity which the state universities everywhere exhibit in greater or less degree...