Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special taste. Strung out along a flimsy plot-about an eccentric dowager's scheme of turning her hotel into the scene of a eugenics experiment, and the hotel manager's counterscheme of supplying, as material for the experiment, young people capable of putting on entertainments that will attract paying guests-are a series of acts which show what has become of old-fashioned vaudeville. Samples: Gracie Allen. George Burns and Ben Blue dancing the minuet; Martha Raye stretching her monstrous mouth; Jack Benny in a burlesque version of Love in Bloom; Marsha Hunt and Leif Erikson singing...
Properly speaking, the 1936 racing season ends Jan. 1, when all U. S. racehorses, by Jockey Club rule, become a year older. Unofficially, the start of the Santa Anita meeting marked the start of the 1937 season. With no super-horse to attract special attention, the 1936 season went on record as horse racing's most prosperous year. In 15 states that permit pari-mutuel betting, $1,000,000,000 changed hands. Leading jockey of the year was Basil James, with 239 winners through last week. Leading trainer was the onetime pigeon fancier, Hirsch Jacobs (TIME, Oct. 26), with...
...electromagnets affixed to the side of a battleship and designed to attract any enemy submarine lurking in the vicinity. When the submarine is sucked to the battleship's side, the occupants are automatically electrocuted...
...victory and the same home town girl. In the middle of this very long film the producers showed a shallow streak of guilty conscience in the person of a meek professor, who objects to his small college vying for the Rose Bowl bid on the grounds that it will attract too much publicity of the wrong kind. It is not strange that the football players in football romances get away with one scene, at the most, of studying, but very strange that the public has not yet grown sick of films that mix a little fake football, some wishy-washy...
...possible to get this happy combination of proficiencies only in the isolated instance. Experience has shown that if the teacher-scholar fulfills his function ably in two out of three departments, he is a relatively happy choice; further, that today the result of this policy is to attract men who are capable research scholars and to a lesser degree, able graduate teachers, but not capable instructors of undergraduates...