Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Lakes is now continuing where it left off a generation ago. Its commanding officers still believe that a star-spangled barnstorming team is a sure-fire way to attract recruits. It also provides entertainment for trainees, money for the local Navy Relief Fund...
...merits the Sun will now really have to scratch. Its character still fuzzy, dutiful rather than inspired in editorials, it has done nothing since its scoop of Pearl Harbor to attract attention. Chicago newsmen particularly shake their heads over the Sun's news sense. Example: it passed up a U.P. story on Wake Island to run its own H. R. Knickerbocker's story a day late...
Died. Louis Michel Eilshemius, 77, self-styled Grand Transcendent Eagle of Art; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A painter for some 50 years, he turned out more than 5,000 canvases, failed to attract either fame or buyers till he was a broken old man. He was then embraced as a cult, made the Metropolitan Museum, sold paintings at four-figure prices. A crippled, wandering-minded recluse, he observed: "It's too late to enjoy my fame." He died in a psychopathic ward...
...certain point. The House-masters, who are at present considering some such scheme as the double-up in a vague sort of way, should remember that the gravity of the present emergency obviates to a great extent these handicaps. It is more important that Harvard shall continue to attract a full quota of students than that a few men should have a "privacy" which by fostering snobbishness may be as harmful as helpful. As for lowering restrictions, it has been notorious for several years that any man with money enough to buy an expensive suite could get into some House...
...when demand for paving granite from their quarry fell off. Since chickens have no teeth, they masticate their food in their gizzards, with the help of pebbles they swallow while feeding. The Davidsons claim that their grit is ideal because it contains sparkling particles of feldspar and mica which attract a hungry...