Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great deal more mass appeal than an instrumental work. It is rather hard for the average singer to resist the temptation to sing down to a public. Very rarely does one find a singer who will announce a program which does not-contain at least one group designed to attract a crowd...
...agitation for civil service reform is the idea that the service should try to attract young men from colleges. It was probably Henry Adams who began the lament that "gentlemen just aren't going into politics these days." That was in the Gilded Age, when capitalism gorged itself on the resources of the nation and made government its subservient tool. The real history of that Age lies in the annals of business, not the archives of government. So it was that men whom the business interests considered "safe" gained easy election to Congress, and the Senate was dubbed the "rich...
This year's competition marks the first appearance of a Supreme Court Justice at Ames arguments, which annually attract outstanding members of the judiciary. Judge Clark is former Dean of the Yale Law School, and Judge Arant held the same post at Ohio State; both men were named to the federal bench last March...