Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pluralities of Roosevelt and Baker over other Democratic candidates point to these two as the most probable contestants for the party leadership. But local enthusiasm for the League of Nations and Prohibition repeal have in all probability given the former Secretary of War more votes than he will attract in the nation as a whole. It is probable, too, that Harvard students are less susceptible to the sensational appeals of Murray and Seabury than the mass of voters will be. Smith's third place on the Democratic ticket indicates that, while he has little chance for the nomination himself...
...weight to Dr. Flexner's searching criticism of American colleges. The prerequisite of coaching ability in prospective instructors has unfortunately been adopted by many schools and colleges. But that fact will hardly excuse Dartmouth, professedly a cultural institution, for hiding behind the shield of "de-emphasis" in order to attract new students by the promise of a profitable vocational training. Men intending to enter other vocations have felt the same needs, but it is still the universally accepted duty of the truly cultural college not to train a man technically for some specific occupation, but to give him a broad...
...remedy, that universities should free themselves from the shackles of commercialization by the route of endowment, is sound. A transformation of emphasis there must be and it can come only from a determined and unceasing effort on the part of universities to break the spell of monetary success and attract brilliant men into cultural rather than lucrative pursuits...
...that was written when such acting was in vogue, but at times one thinks the lady does protest too much, to render ludicrous a scene which Eva Le Gallienne's more subdued portrayal would have made dramatic. Her manner also makes her seem too feline and too charmless to attract the trio of men that the author gathers round her. She is a witch, and not a leading lady...
...Manhattan, Peter Mathews, writer, awoke to find his bedroom door jammed shut. The telephone was in another room. Peter Mathews heaved, tugged, pried, cursed. Across the area way from his window was an office whence he endeavored to attract attention by throwing quarters, dimes, pennies, pencils, erasers, matchboxes, paper clips. No one paid any attention. Peter Mathews, smart, then tied an inkbottle to the cord of his bathrobe, lowered it out of the window, banged it on the window below. A startled old lady appeared. In ten minutes disheveled Peter Mathews was rescued by policemen who arrested him for annoying...