Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consideration quite apart from the petition's value. These issues must not be confused. The point is not that the petition will fail to change Hearst overnight into a tolerant lamb of peace, gifted with a clear and far-seeing eye. Rather is it that the petition will attract attention to a rising menace to ideals indigenous to America...
...best friend, shot by the confederate of a gangster he was arresting. The first half of the picture is a skillfully arranged advertisement of the Department of Justice school for training its agents, snowing Brick Davis becoming involved in difficulties with his teacher (Robert Armstrong), trying to attract the attention of a girl (Margaret Lindsay) who thinks she dislikes him and doing most of the other things which are part of the Cagney formula. The second half, when Brick Davis' schooling is over, shows the war between a squad of G men and the Leggett gang, a war characterized...
...report: The American Chemical Society in Manhattan, the American Association of Physical Anthropology in Philadelphia, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society in Washington, the American Association on Mental Deficiency in Chicago. Consequently a savant's paper had to be of rare interest to attract attention. Here follow summaries of some pertaining to Medicine and the business of living...
Generously large scholarships are a salient feature of the unfolding educational program of Harvard's President Conant. One favorite aspect of his plans is the effort to attract to the Eastern school scholars of exceptional ability from the Middle Western and Western states by means of especially attractive scholarships...
...join the quest for the same female, and in answering her they get their flashes into phase with the first suitor on the scene. By selecting a cruising male and responding to its signal with a flash from an electric torch 2.1 sec. later, Mr. Buck was able to attract groups of 15 or 20 insects all lighting up simultaneously...