Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowded. Our other artists attract a very special class of visitor, but O'Keeffe always brings the general public...
Whoever told you that we had that sum, grossly exaggerated the fact. We have a small endowment much less than half that sum, just enough to attract sensible givers, who wish to give to a going concern, nonpartisan, courageous and non-purchasable, always alert to tackle the paramount issue. We are. able to do a vast work, if we had an endowment of a million...
...tendency to take a literature course in a foreign language as a means of satisfying a language requirement would also have the effect of boosting the Literature total. The Dean's office plans in the future to take a good sized sample of each class, to determine which fields attract most students for distribution courses...
Though the immediate effect of this was to attract an even larger number of egg-sellers to the New York market than before, by week's end wholesale prices had steadied, moved up a little. Surplus Commodities Corp. hoped that this would dissuade poultry farmers from cutting down on feed and hatchings, thereby causing an egg shortage next autumn...
...wild rumors that were going the rounds about a mysterious denizen of Hollywood who called himself John Montague, refused to let himself be photographed, told no one where he came from or how he made his living, and never entered golf tournaments where he might attract publicity. The rumors were so wild that even when benign Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who is too serious about sport to hoax his public and much too wise to be beguiled by Hollywood hoaxers, wrote a column in which he called Montague one of the world's greatest golfers, no one took him very...