Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to provide an ideal atmosphere for genuine scholarship. Perhaps it will become a place to which college professors can return at intervals for "recreative" study. But such an exclusively intellectual community runs the danger of becoming absorbed in its own abstract ratiocinations. If the Institute can attract great teachers, however, their presence will keep it from being nothing more than a society for Bibliolatry...
This is an annual event and never fails to attract a large number of entries. The teams are made up of three men, one to fence in epee, one in foils, and one in sabre. The University's best swordsmen will represent Harvard and it is conceded that they will have a good chance of winning the championship...
...beyond the academic walls has trouble enough weltering through its rotary meetings, its committee sessions, its talkfests, and its elections, without bothering itself with the same things in the colleges. There are a few notable exceptions to this rule such as the great athletic spectacles in which the heroes attract a lot of attention. But the athlete is not let alone to capitalize on his glory; the college, anxious to do him homage, piles upon him committee appointments, society honors and the like until he can notice that his real athletic activity occupies but a small proportion of his time...
...that it is with them that the first speculative opportunities will be found, and that is why the United States, according to reports, has recently canceled European credits already decided upon in principle and also withdrawn funds from this side. In acting thus, the United States is endeavoring to attract foreign capital in search of remuneration...
...Uncle Toby." The sight of a scholarly old gentleman becoming the State's first Democratic Governor in 18 years was enough in itself to attract a crowd to the parks and lawns about the Capitol at Hartford. What made the crowd a multitude and set it to tumultuous noise-making was the appearance of an ex-heavyweight world's champion garbed in the full regimentals of a Marine Corps Major serving conspicuously on that Governor's military staff. In retrospect most observers agreed that Major James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney with his dress saber and gold braid stole the inauguration from...