Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaper publisher was undecided whether he would enter any of the other Presidential primaries besides Ohio and his home state. Knox has consistently opposed the New Deal, although he supported the President's early moves towards a balanced budget. He was one of the original anti-New Dealers to attract nation wide attention as a possible Republican nominee...
...denied visas on which they were to have gone to England on the invitation of George V's impulsive mother, the Dowager Queen Alexandra. With thrones creaking from Berlin to Constantinople, the best and wisest British Cabinet members urgently advised the House of Windsor not to attract attention to this question by becoming hosts to the House of Romanov...
...Crime and Punishment" is a great motion picture which will not attract great audiences. It is purely intellectual entertainment offered to audiences originally attracted by a form of entertainment that was purely emotional. But it is a gripping offering to intellectuals, a human drama of intense power with some flaws in its presentation, but, taken as a whole, a fine demonstration of intelligent direction...
...field of Applied Mechanics, it would be a matter of the highest scientific importance to establish at Harvard in the general field of applied mechanics, an opportunity similar to that offered by Prandtl at Gottingen, so inclusive and of such strength that it would attract the better grade students and be the recognized training place...
...with "Tea Time Tales" as his offering to the Tories. It is unkind for William Carlos Williams to criticize him as follows: "I'd advise him rather to take up arboriculture, unless he is so extraordinarily devoted to writing at its most difficult that even newspaper reporting doesn't attract him. Poetry is worse than cyanide of potassium to a young man unless he wants to die that...