Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Field aggregation and won it 19 to 7 and swings into action against another setup, Guilford today. But better opportunity for ascertaining the strength of the Southerners will be afforded next Saturday when the Navy takes them on on its home field. Michigan, the team that probably will attract the most attention in these parts this fall and also furnish some of the toughest opposition, has followed the Big Ten custom of carding a double-header on the early Saturdays and will split up its squad and play games with both Ypsilanti and Dennison. The Ypsilanti game will...
...Certain tutors will live in the Houses, others will have conference rooms in them and live elsewhere, but every student-in a given House will have at least on resident tutor. These methods are admittedly experimental. It is hoped that each House will in time develop an individuality and attract students by their major interests...
...Wilmington, Mass., Walter Melinsky hopped about, gesticulated with his fingers, tried to attract the attention of a crowd of bathers. When bystanders finally realized the cause of his .antics it was too late to save his drowned companion, like himself a deaf mute, for whom he was summoning...
...near his farm. He protested, but the government paid little attention. Through months of talking and brooding the thought of winning that case became a mania eating up all his other thoughts. By degrees it developed a corollary. He felt that to get the hearing he wanted he must attract attention, make himself famous by some remarkable exploit or else hurt himself so badly and spectacularly that the British Government in South Africa and the whole world would listen when he told what a spectacular injustice had been inflicted upon...
President Ernest Hatch Wilkins, of Oberlin College: "The technique of the army and navy will hardly serve. Pictorial posters placed about the campus, with instructors detached for recruiting duty, pacing up and down in academic costumes would attract more missiles than missionaries. Teaching must be attractive . . . interesting . . . afford chance for distinction and for service; and it must give promise of financial competence for happy family life...