Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guernsey gaffers believe that the cry "Haro!" is an abbreviation of "Ha, Rollo!" an appeal to Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. More probably it comes from Anglo-Saxon licra or hara, an exclamation intended to attract attention. At Irish county fairs hucksters still shout "Aral Aral" when displaying their wares...
...Geology Museum. There during the next ten weeks he will discuss "the different types of agriculture found on the earth: first the sorts of farming within the tropics, next those of middle latitudes, progressing constantly away from the Equator." That program has just the flavor of the unusual to attract to the Vagabond. Incidentally, Professor Whittlesey is treating the course this year from an entirely new angle. Confidentially, it is reported that even his jokes are of the 1930 vintage...
...chain of technical schools, he would discover that the apparently crowded field of motor manufacturing is sparsely occupied in comparison with the academic grove. The rivalry among educators was never so keen as it is today. In no other country do so many institutions try to attract students--the sad experience of "Jude the Obscure" in Thomas Hardy's overpowering novel seems hardly possible in the United States. From the time when a child is ready for kindergarten until and A.B., he enters a graduate school, he can pick and choose his institution, if one has not already picked...
...Warsaw, gave some international advice to American business men. To the Merchants' Association of New York he spoke of the country whose economic resources he has studied for two years. With a national debt of only $15.50 per capita, one of the lowest in Europe, Poland should attract American capital, said Economist Dewey. He advised U. S. manufacturers to become partners in Polish firms and thus get in on the ground floor of the prosperity he foresees for Polish industry. "Because of her natural resources and because there is a possibility of her becoming a distributing centre...
...winning the unimportant ones, of yielding in big events to the inspired rallies of inferior players. Two weeks ago he broke his custom of staying in Florida all winter by going to Agua Caliente, Mexico. The men who have built hotels, casinos and a race-track there to attract the money formerly spent at Tia Juana, a few miles away, tempted him and other famed players by making the prizes of their first tournament bigger than those of any other tournament in the world...