Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-Hoover-Democrat group headed by Gustave Keller, Appleton lawyer, chummy with La Folletteers; one a "Roosevelt-Farley" ticket, headed by Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan politician, made up of machine Democrats. For John Nance Garner was a slate bossed by John J. Slocum, Assembly clerk, expected to attract many an anti-Term III voter who would rather protest a Roosevelt re-election than choose between Messrs. Dewey and Vandenberg...
...Illinois voters who did not vote in last year's primaries may vote for either party's candidates, therefore LaGuardia might attract voters away from Franklin Roosevelt...
...French girl of the middle classes and up is on no Nordic romantic pedestal but serene in her father's provision of a suitable marriage portion practically guaranteed to attract an acceptable fiance. Or if there is no money for a dot then she rationally faces the alternatives of spinsterhood in its more or less appetizing forms. These in France can be either. The French spinster escapes certain laws which her smugly married sisters take as a matter of course, laws which definitely make the French husband master in his home. For example, a wife cannot...
...Copernican theory that the earth is a planet and moves round the sun did not attract the serious concern of the Inquisition until it began to look as if Galileo was proving it. His first brush with the Holy Office resulted in nothing more than an eloquent, friendly warning from the great theologist, Cardinal Bellarmin. It is on this occasion that Harsanyi has him make (gaily) his famous-probably apocryphal -remark: "Eppur si muove" ("Nevertheless it moves"). The heat was not really turned on until Galileo was 69, when Pope Urban VIII in a personal pet had the sick...
...subsidiary had never, except as an accommodation, sold ore to others, except for the hint that the biggest U. S. ore producer was going to compete with the others who have had the market to themselves, except for these things, the Oliver advertisement would hardly have attracted any notice. The notice it did attract was heightened by the additional report that its first sale was breaking the "inflexible" price...