Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game has to equal for speed and endurance, and the development of these features has probably done more to attract the public interest than anything else. Always a fast game, the shortening and improvement of the lacrosse stick made it still faster. The original stick was little more than a flat net on a long handle, and to control the ball with it was little short of marvelous. The modern mentors of the game saw that a shorter stick with a deeper webbing would make for quicker, castle and more accurate handling of the ball. It would prevent a slowing...
...over his eyes and a chloroform handkerchief in one hand and a pistol in the other ready to jump upon the victim and toss her unconscious into an automobile, and lock her up later in a room, or one can open a cafe and enliven it with music and attract young women there as a miller is drawn toward the light, then fill their veins with wine, till their head is light and their senses are disturbed, their consciences numbed, and the natural barriers of protection laid low when all too easily they have become victims of man's lustfulness...
Harvard has the prestige and the power to attract almost any coach she should desire. The coaching position of our Crimson rival is a position that many more famous men than Horween might welcome. The fact is, however, that one of her own sons has been picked for the position...
...talks of Lancelot Andrewes and Joseph Hall this morning, worthy divines both, and yet jovial souls. Longinus and "The Sublime" is Professor Elton's subject in Comparative Literature 29. Three o'clock is an hour when one might do anything--but it is more than likely that Longinus will attract me to Sever...
...James took his sabbatical under the same conditions. And that was how the great Professor Royce was brought to Cambridge. The splendid teacher, the fine scholar, the able professor like Josiah Royce is hard to find. But Harvard must always seek to find him, and be prepared financially to attract him when it does. To do this, unrestricted money is needed...