Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Large scale advertising (THAR'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS, STRANGER-MILLIONS WILL PLAY) serves both to attract buyers and players. The eloquent Tom Thumb booklet explains: "Passersby see the course, they see people putting-they stop-they lean on the fence surrounding the course-they watch the ball as it travels toward the cup-they scream-they laugh . . . they are fascinated-they want to play-they do play . . . they laugh-they scream-they groan-at last they are playing golf...
...Bedford newsgatherer what happened to her after the Coolidges came into her life. She was "a marked woman . . . shaken and wretched." Returning to The Beeches from her first conference with Mr. Coolidge, she found 18 photographers on the grounds taking pictures. Because she feared a public auction would attract swarms of souvenir-seekers she had to sell $5,000 worth of furniture to the Coolidges (who did not particularly want it) for a trifling sum. The telephone rang constantly (60 calls one hour) ; she had to have two policemen come to prevent curiosity peepers from stampeding the house and ruining...
...obvious solution is to extend Fine Arts 1d to a full course. If, under the present conditions it continues to attract an ever increasing enrolment, there is every justification for extending it over the period of two semesters. A superficial and frenzied smattering of many facts is certainly useless. To devote a year to obtaining a real knowledge of the subject would be a step toward avoiding the unfortunate impression of Harvard dilettantism...
Mathematics, a second old standby of educators, continues to attract, the enrollments for the classes of 1931, 1932, and 1933, being 31, 34, and 38 in order. In opposition to this, the field of Physics has had a decrease in membership, its numbers being 20, 18, and 15 for the period studied. Despite the falling off in the fields of English and Classics, the Romance Language department has had growing followers...
...Center, Ala., M. M. Bishop, 57, a clever bird imitator, sat in some bushes with his gun, hooting like an owl to attract a hawk which had been ravaging his barnyard. Dail Cagle, 15, went out to hunt the same hawk, sat on a fence, heard the hooting, aimed where he thought the owl was, shot Bishop in the head, killed...