Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must be admitted, of course, that certain difficulties would be encountered, such as that of procuring a coach and adequate equipment. Nevertheless, it seems that the instituting of the sport here would attract a sufficiently large number of men to the athletic fields to make such action eminently worth while. --Daily Princetonian...
...cents for each special; the contest made them each almost $500 richer. In the Reynolds Building 122 employes on day and night shifts sorted and stapled the mail. Within a few days they stopped being surprised at such oddities as a letter in a crate so it would attract attention, letters in little known foreign languages, answers sent in on phonograph records, sometimes set to music, answers in fancy leather volumes, others engraved on metal, some cast in plaster, one wrapped around a baby's shoe. Many contestants sent in pictures of themselves, many appealed for aid. Not immune...
...fact that Douglas was a national statesman long before Lincoln. He was runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1856. He viewed his slavery debates with Lincoln in 1858 as a mere incident to winning re-election to the Senate. For Lincoln they were a major opportunity to attract public notice and favor. Contrasted with Lincoln, Douglas is commonly depicted as the arch fiend of slavery. As a matter of fact he was not. He tried to take a middle course on the issue, to weasel on it just as politicians today weasel on Prohibition. He favored settlement...
...about the first International Patent Exposition, in Chicago last week. Inventors have notorious difficulty in getting money to exploit their devices. Banks will not make loans without established security. Financiers, in general, will not bother with strange new gadgets. It was with hope that volume and diversity would attract money that the inventors worked up their exposition. Some 3,000 men and women put their wares on display...
...mining communities of America might attract attention by changing their names to ones suitable to their conditions. We suggest the following: Bare Creek, Empty Dinner Pail, Starving Children, Ragtown, Tattered Clothes, Hooverhit, Jobless, Empty Belly, Depression, Moaning Widows, Too-Weak-to-Weep, Turnip-greens, Nogrub, Patches, Mounting Debts, Sunken Eyes, Hollow Cheeks, Hungry Guts, Rickets, Scurvy, Pellagra, Last...