Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brailowsky. Good also for grapes, apples and upland game birds, this year will be a pianists' year in the U. S. Already scheduled for recitals are Josef Hofmann, Harold Bauer, Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Italian Carlo Zecchi will make his U. S. debut in January. But the three men sure to attract greatest attention, sure to be the most newsworthy, are Paderewski, Iturbi, Gieseking...
...Paris," said Signore Nitti, while fat Fernando blushed modestly among his chins, "and he impressed me as an honest, moderate, loyal and well-educated young man. When I read the details of his act of last October I was convinced that his intention was not to kill but to attract public attention to the deplorable state of affairs in Italy. . . . Everywhere men of different beliefs and shades of opinion are allowed to assemble except in Italy. Deprived of liberty and hearing lots of talk about violence, what shall youth...
...desire to attract attention and to be a conspicuous figure among one's fellow men is undoubtedly one of the most fundamental and primitive reactions of the race, and until comparatively recent times the college student has been singularly fortunate in the achievement of such preeminence. But of late years the feverish exploitation of gin, necking, and sartorial eccentricities has been to no avail against the far more adroit advertising of Masons, Elks and the Ku Klux Klan, and the unfortunate collegian is faced with the possibility of being recognized by the public in all his shame as a perfectly...
...success of any system depends greatly on the personality of the teacher, and there is no reason to suppose that the adoption of the conference plan throughout a college would attract that particular type of pedagogue that Mr. Holt considers so essential to the success of his plan...
...there is nothing of the motor tour guide about the magazine. The theory is that of all who might yield to the Holiday impulse to go somewhere, enough will naturally choose automobiles. The Association expects Holiday to stand on its own feet as a publishing venture, expects it to attract advertisers of transportation, resorts, sporting goods, luggage, all accessories of travel. Guaranteed circulation for the first issue...