Word: attractiveful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parades, was Mayor Thompson's solution of the Chicago frenzy. He called together representatives of 50 improvement organizations and business clubs, explained to them his plan of a big-improvement -parade -every -other -week until Christmas. Said he: "Holding parades is the only way we can attract the attention of the public to what we are doing. The papers never boost us; they always...
...abundance of characters; the question is whether the future will also be supplied; and the answer is that the probabilities are good. Specifically, the paperboys of the Waldorf and the hand-cart are promising for the time when the present stock is gone, and natural processes will doubtless attract enough new material to keep the quota filled. The dull picture of Harvard without characters will hardly need to be painted for the next generation...
...working towards the organization of Oxford and Cambridge as a goal when it adopts certain of their features, but will make use only of those things that seem adaptable. The same applies to the other institutions of Europe. The older universities will retain for some time the attractions of age and tradition and thereby attract a limited number of graduate students, but no longer can they hope to secure dominance in the new world by a wholesale transplantation of their methods...
...present at the close of the discussion to vote in favor of the proposal, action upon which has been temporarily postponed by the Corporation. The later body had hoped to obtain a fairly definite idea of undergraduate opinion on the question. The subject of the debate seemed likely to attract a large interest; two years ago, the question of football overemphasis drew a thousand students to the Union, a majority of whom agreed that the undue importance on the sport should be checked. Speakers with reputations in the world of athletics were on the schedule last night, the Boston sporting...
...Daya Hewaviarne, manager of the Mahā Bodhi Society, announced that there would soon be built a temple to Buddha, the God who squats in the stuffy temples of Asia, to whom unhurried Buddhists babble their patient prayers. This first English temple to Buddha will make no effort to attract converts but will cater to present Buddhists now resident in London. The Buddhist priests will be dressed in robes of orange color. The temple will fly the Buddhist flag. This is an emblem in six hues, blue, red, yellow, white, orange, and a combination of all five, for when Buddha...