Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their houses for General Development Corp. (TIME, March 30). Unlike the Mackles and most other big builders, Long is building all his houses in a single location, plans to put up at least 8,000 more houses before Maryvale is completed. He offers new models every six months to attract customers. Says Long: "It's like retooling and offering new models in the automobile industry...
...approve? Does he condemn? Indeed, for the reader, does it matter? Wyeth and Steiner ultimately appear trivial and absurd. A child, at least, grows up; but the down-and-outs in Easy Living are adults gone to seed. They are grown men and women romping in diapers, shouting to attract our attention, aware of our criticism, scornful of our values, yet forever concerned with what we think of them. Children we can tolerate; child-men and child-women we generally lock up. Unfortunately, Wyeth and Steiner broke loose; but Zane seems unable to know what to do with the fools...
DeGuglielmo has said that he is not worried about college students playing the machines but feels that in the community at large they attract crowds of teen-agers and tend to encourage juvenile delinquency. He started the drive with a Council order early in March asking the City Solictor to prepare legislation for banning the machines...
...paper has gone downhill since then, she noted, "until it no longer has enough prestige to attract talented writers. Editor Jane A. Conner '60 was forced to put out the last three issues without assistance, Miss Webster continued, and "all she received was criticism...
Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and principal speaker at the group's meeting last Saturday, said that colleges should raise their salaries in order to attract "the kind of people needed to provide leadership in an educational community...