Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squad this year twenty-four years old, one having another year to go, seven are twenty-three, eight are twenty-two from the lower classes. Let us hope that West Point will realize there is no glory in defeating Annapolis on such unfair grounds and that true sportsmanship will attract them to adopt the same rules as most of the elevens they play where three years on any major team is the limit...
Some plays are popular because of the fierce excitement brought about by a succession of crises in the plot. Others attract the public because the characters are well-known and likeable. "The Late Christopher Bean" is of this latter genre. With Miss Lord it seems to do well...
Boston's brilliant functions always attract a hoard of gate-crashers, worthy and otherwise. There were no crashers at the Conant Inaugural. Yet Colonel Apted was unable to prevent one person without an invitation from slipping through the police cordons and witnessing the ceremony...
...Pageant is essentially an amateur flyers' affair, with enough open events to attract a few big-name professionals. Preludes to the meet were a night transcontinental race from Los Angeles and an ingenious ''treasure hunt." Some 70 sportsmen pilots entered the treasure hunt, sponsored by Pilot Bernarr Macfadden to advertise his Liberty magazine. The hunters were to start at St. Louis, hunt across country to Long Island for successive letters of LIBERTY spread in white cloth on the ground...
...higher priced rooms should be reduced to rates that will attract men who can afford them and who are now outside the House Plan because of the savings they make in rents...