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Word: attractions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...style. Even if two bands played the same arrangement, there would be a noticeable difference in execution and interpretation. Thus, a certain band becames prominent because its peculiar style appeals to the public. In every band there is something about the arrangements, that should more or less attract attention, either because they are unusually different or decidedly unique in some particular detail. Good arrangements are those which show the musicianship off to good advantage and at the same time have...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

Swing situation around Beantown gets a real dose of aspirin as three topnotch bands pull into town today. Jimmy Dorsey, Les Brown, and Sonny Burke attract in the order named, the last two being here for several weeks, Jimmy doing a series of one-nighters starting tonight at Roseland State and ending up next Friday at the MIT Sophomore Prom...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

When Harvard was expanding rapidly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it needed many famous scholars to attract a student clientele; it was a young university. Now its position is more firmly established. Now a minimum of great names is needed to maintain its place in the sun. What is needed, however, to improve the second and now more important source of its greatness is a greater emphasis on teaching in order to train the embryo "great names" of the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PERSONALITY AND OR SCHOLARSHIP | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

...sink her but kept her by as a bunker ship to be crowded with captured crews and finally sent to Germany. A fantastic series of sinkings, captures, cripplings began. What made them particularly fantastic was the gallantry, as well as the ingenuity, of Captain Miiller. He used tricks to attract the enemy, but in battle he proudly flew his own flag. Sometimes he had five or six boats gathered around him in various stages of sinking. He was so ubiquitous that many people seriously believed that the Germans named several cruisers Emden. He sent to the bottom more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Old Game | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...when, the late, great Teddy Roosevelt pranced around the arena at Cheyenne's Frontier Days celebration, rodeos were a novelty even in his wild & woolly West. Today rodeos are a big-time U. S. sport. They annually attract twice as many spectators as auto racing or track. In Texas rodeos are chasing baseball off the sandlots. They have a governing organization (Rodeo Association of America), a cowboys' union (Turtle Association),* a major-league circuit and a national champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Career Cowboys | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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