Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when hooked, 3) endurance to make long and repeated surface runs. Most popular with Atlantic anglers is the weak-mouthed weakfish (world's record: 17 Ibs. 3 oz.), least sporty of game fish. From the first of May, when the annual weakfish run starts off Cape Hatteras, they attract thousands of anglers along the saltwater bays, inlets and tidal rivers from Delaware to Long Island. Best weak, fishing spot is Peconic Bay on eastern Long Island where, during June, boats will be as numerous as canoes on a summer-camp lake...
...increasing specialization of the tutorial staffs is due, no doubt, to the fact that unlike the poles of a magnet, like scholars attract like. A Master who is a professor in the sciences will surround himself with young scientists both students and tutors. And once a dominant field is established in a House by the accumulation of several good tutors in that field, applicants for the Houses flock to that House which offers them the best tutorial instruction in their field. As soon as this academic specialization in a House has become a fact it tends to become almost self...
...Tench who suggested that traditional requirements of two years of college and four years of dental school be lowered for "sub-dentists" to practice among the poorer sections of the populace. "With only three years' dental school training, and no predental college courses," said Dr. Tench, "we could attract the boy who might otherwise stay on in his town and become a mechanic at the garage. [He could perform] simple fillings...
...half-course in American civilization would probably attract a large number of students. Laboratory men, now too busy for extra-curricular history, might well fit a half-course into their distribution schedules. As a course it could be a new departure in Harvard education, with emphasis on personal contact, small groups, informality, and with less stress on examinations. On the other side it may be argued that the giving of course credit would not necessarily increase participation. Moreover, an experimental course faces the real danger of becoming a notorious snap, particularly if formal check-ups are minimized. And the very...
...Manhattan every Sunday afternoon is published a flamboyant newspaper called the New York Enquirer. The Enquirer's headlines are so big & black that they have ceased to attract attention; its circulation is not listed with the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Enquirer is violently anti-New Deal, violently pro-William Randolph Hearst, which has led some people to suspect that Mr. Hearst was an angel to the activities of its publisher, flamboyant William Griffin...