Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certain great universities of the western world are older than any of the world's existing governments. The secret of their unfailing vitality is that they attract to themselves and again send forth into the community men who care about ideas and ideals. They are the special guardians of the nation's cultural heritage. They are the places to which the intellectual leadership of a democracy must always resort for inspiration and training. They are centers of intellectual independence and progress, radiating a profound and immeasurable influence on the character and development of the nation...
...assassinated by enemies in his own ranks. Indifferent to her own fate, emotionally exhausted, Milja lived in Paris, saw her onetime comrades destroy one another in fights for spoils. To get her to run one last secret errand, V. M. R. 0. offered the only bribe that could attract her-the name of the man who had killed her lover. But the betrayals had become too intricate; the man named was not Todor's murderer but merely another victim of the ruling clique. Milja abandoned her errand, deceived the chiefs, was blown up in the Orient Express...
...headmaster of a school so closely identified with the existing social order. Fears were set at rest when President Lewis began listing the evils of secondary education: "The use of correct, trenchant and beautiful English among the graduates of our secondary schools is so rare as to attract surprised attention. Manners are poor, the courtesies of an early day are classified as Victorian and are therefore discarded. It is considered smart to appear uncouth. Lawlessness is on the increase. Political indifference has increased. Spiritual ideals have become less evident...
...half courses covering the history of science require considerable technical knowledge to be enjoyed; and cannot attract the student whose primary concern is to gain an insight into the scientific method. Such a course necessitates a lecturer whose approach would be virtually that of the layman, and who would realize that his sole purpose would be to stimulate interest in a field that has unfortunately come to be associated too much with pure technique...
Tennis again proved the favorite sport for Freshmen compulsory athletics, with 212 electing that sport, while the managerial competitions failed to attract more than...