Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact remains that there is no reason why the Dramatic Club should not produce a revival that would be a contribution to the stage, and at the same time attract a large number of persons interested in significant plays. If they desire to accumulate a large box office receipt, they obviously can not reach such a goal by presenting plays that the talking pictures and stock companies do better every day in the week. On the other hand, if the club chooses to become a school of acting, their former prestige and affluence must necessarily be relegated to the past...
...Clevelanders were not worried by this storm. In fact, knowing Clevelanders chuckled. Astute in many ways are the Van Sweringens. They knew their pyramid had been built quickly, they knew certain bond clauses which demand put up more securities under certain involving lower prices would attract Bears. Long before the gathered they had lined up potent On the actual day of the selling Brother Mantis James was duck-hunting and Brother Oris Paxton was in before the New England governors' railroad committee, urging that the hold over New York, New Haven & Hartford be broken. As expected the storm subsided...
...Beloit, Wis., Janet and Janice Norem, two-year-old twins, licked off sugar sprinkled on flypaper to attract flies, were taken to a hospital to have their stomachs washed...
...Venice they meet. Disaster immediately pounces upon Caryl. Powerless to prevent it, he sees his first opportunity to attract some notice as a pianist casually swept aside by his brother. Sebastian's motives are purely fraternal when he starts out to help Caryl find Fenella, the girl Caryl loves, the girl who has sworn eternal love to him. Caryl again sits by while Sebastian's fraternal motives are overcome by something warmer. After Venice, where his ambition has foundered, and the Dolomites, where the search for Fenella and Sebastian's conquest of her has taken place, Caryl...
...convention, which will be held in the first week in September in 1932, will attract more than 150 astronomers from 14 different countries, as well as many American astronomical authorities. This is the fourth meeting of the Union, which met in Rome in 1922, in Cambridge, England, in 1925, and in Leyden in 1928. The Union is made up of 27 international commissions who are doing special research work in various fields, and nine members of the Harvard Observatory staff are serving on 11 of these research bodies...