Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expect that the criminal classes, all in need of mental care to a greater or lesser degree, will be much benefited under the care of wardens trained only to pass the civil service examinations. Conversely, the tax-payer can consider as well spent any money used to attract academically trained men into the field of corrective administration...
...adult courts, parole offices, and departments of probation throughout the country will cooperate by affording training facilities, and by placing our graduates where they will have an oppor- tunity to develop: If communities recognize the great importance of correctional work, they will so compensate the positions that they will attract and hold well educated professional men. Prison work should be dignified...
Life undertook to prove its point by sending ballot cards to 5,110 golf clubs, and printing a ballot blank in the magazine. Strictly, Life's poll will not be a true pro-&-con measure of opinion because the form of ballot blank is worded to attract only the objectors. But as a petition of protest, Life is confident that an overwhelming aversion to the new ball will be registered by "the 90% who never break...
Back on the cay the little party built a fire that night to attract passing ships, but none came. Next day Missionary Knowles and two of the crew improvised a sail and mast, set out for Acklin Island, 17 miles away. The Bishop, Miss Shedden and the rest of the crew waited that long day, marooned. Then came a Turk's Island sailing sloop which Missionary Knowles had encountered. But not until a week after that did Nassau get the news, send out a launch to fetch home its boating Bishop...
...selection of Sigurthur Nordal of the University of Iceland as the fifth lecturer to hold the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry will attract general attention to a field of literature which at present is little known except to scholars. It is perhaps especially fortunate that Professor Nordal should come to Harvard following the addition of the Schofield collection of books in Widener, since they might be more fully appreciated in the light of his lectures...