Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made on a strictly busines basis, bearing 6 per cent interest and maturing three years after a man leaves the School. The arrangement has been found preferable to the establishment of scholarships as is the custom in other departments of the University, for it enables the school to attract men of limited financial means and lead them to consider the business training given by the School more as an investment...
...quandary over American theatrical tastes by New York and its audiences. Having formed through many years of observation a theory that Americans feast delicately upon quiet and refined concoctions, what was his consternation to find that, after all, the Grand Guignol players must serve highly spiced preparations to attract a crowd. Moreover, he is struck by the oddity that staid American audiences "run wild" in Paris by going to see the somewhat strong repertoire which the Grand Guignol presents there...
...face Fate with a light, inflexible courage. She only broke down once, when Frank Ellinger threw her over and married-till Captain Forrester's death. Then (he had been her balance wheel), inscrutably weak as she was inscrutably strong, she lost poise -let her charm stoop pitifully to attract such men as the hard, sly, bumptious Ivy Peters. She passed out of Niel's life, leaving him full of sorrow and anger that so inimitable a creature should come to such base uses. Later he heard she had married again-a rich, cranky old Englishman, who lived...
What remains? Requirements for admission might possibly be raised still further, but it is a question whether this would be of any value except to attract precocious students. On the other had it is possible to follow the example of the Yale authorities who have decided this fall to limit the size of the Freshman class to 850. Unfortunately, however, they have not yet made public the methods by which they hope to do this...
...Significance. A compact, well constructed novel, written with Mrs. Wharton's unfailing deftness and giving a faithful picture of War-time Paris, A Son at the Frant, can hardly fail to attract a considerable audience. And yet it seems a curiously lifeless book. The characters seem shadowy and unsubstantial; the exact, neat detail, lacking in any real significance; the tale, twice-told. To your reviewer, coming, as it does after Mr. BritUng, Sonia, Le Feu, Three Soldiers, One of Ours and Through the Wheat, A Son at the Front appears like an exhibition of perfect waxworks, meticulously constructed, displaying every...