Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest, there was Missouri's Senator Harry Truman (who might help carry his Midwest border state); Speaker Sam Rayburn (who should please the South); Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd (who might attract a stray conservative vote); Senate Leader Alben Barkley, Economic Stabilizer Jimmy Byrnes, WMC Boss Paul McNutt and even such outsiders as Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas and Tennessee's Governor Prentice Cooper...
...bomb, predicts that with radio devices steering the projectile from several different points to correct each other's errors, the robot bomb will become "quite dangerous." Experiments have shown, says he, that it is very difficult to interfere with radio control of a projectile; radio interference may even attract the missile to the target...
...great cheer to Arthur Cremin, who has sent $1,000 to. Dr. Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, through TIME [May 29]. Perhaps this noble gesture will attract the attention of the chemical companies who will commercialize and market this "wonder drug" and make them realize that it would be only fair to let Drs. Fleming & Florey share their great profits...
...competition. The clock does not turn back. Having survived one era of jungle warfare, and facing now a new kind of rivalry in radio, the newspapers will not tolerate a further division of the spoils. And save for a few venturesome souls, the prospective rewards are unlikely to attract new enterprisers...
...Lawnmower Pusher." Roundy's chief field is still sports (last football season he picked 153 winners, in 172 games; in this basketball season he has miscalled only two out of 50), but anything is likely to attract his punditry. He sums up the problem of teen age delinquency thus: "I don't blame the men in service at all these young girls are up town to get picked up they get picked up alright that is their fault. . . . I can't understand what is the matter with some of the parents some of these sixteen year...