Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy's Los Angeles and of other dirigibles when they visit the U. S., a structure so enormous that it has contained two mammoth and two smaller bags all at once. But, even in the Skyscraper Age, size is not everything. The relatively tiny, thoughtfully beautiful chapel may attract quite as much attention as the mighty, bleakly utilitarian hangar...
...believers in the adage that speech is silver and silence golden or that little boys should be seen and not heard. At all events the motives and intentions in this instance have been distorted far beyond the original design and the explanation makes its appearance too late even to attract attention...
...first few years the system may be rather ungainly, but eventually, after the first class has spent four years under the plan, each Quad will probably take on a character of its own, which will attract students of like minds and sympathies...
Given these three important conditions together with established protection for old age or unexpected disability, and the academic career will not only attract an increasing number of ambitious, cultivated and splendid youth, but one of the heaviest of burdens will be lifted from the backs of faithful and devoted men and women who now literally stagger under what they are called upon to bear.... --From the Annual report of the President of Columbia...
...requires constant alertness on the part of University officials to maintain a faculty which can be of consistently high quality from year to year. The greatest efforts must be made to attract men of stimulating interest to the college, and an equal effort made to facilitate their work here in order that they may have that freedom which is essential to really successful teaching...