Word: attractively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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German A and French E still attract about six hundred students who have not passed their language requirement. English A has over one hundred more students this year than last despite the drop in the number of incoming Freshmen...
...disembark her men in lifeboats. He then lay to, checked the castaways' compass, offered them a tow toward the nearest land. After scuttling the lifeless Olivegrove with one well-aimed torpedo, he stood by her survivors for nine hours until help neared (U. S. liner Washington). To attract it, he put lights on the lifeboats and fired two red rockets before taking his tactful leave...
Scandals (conceived and produced by George White), first edition in four years of an old Broadway annual, is a testament to Producer George White's faith that hopped-up burlesque at revue prices will attract many a New York World's Fair visitor. Mr. White's show was tried out in Atlantic City last month, fumigated in Boston, and presented last week on Broadway at a $7.70 opening night top. Its reception indicated that Producer White's faith would not be too severely punished...
...attract rural art lovers to the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia last week, fair officials held a contest for amateur painters, got Austin Faricy, professor of esthetics at Stephens College (for women) in Columbia, to judge it. Professor Faricy took one look at the entries, gave first prize to a barnyard scene called Farm Life, painted on a piece of muslin in oils and aluminum shellac...
...sheathed wooden sword, got ready to put on a bull-dodging act for a New York World's Fair rodeo. On hand were representatives of the S. P. C. A., 200 spectators, a bull in a corral. When somebody opened the gate to the corral, nothing happened. To attract the bull's attention cowboys did a dance in front of the gate. The bull didn't budge. Steers were driven into the chute as decoys. The bull looked the other way. Twenty minutes later, after considerable prodding, the bull ambled down the chute, Fighter Franklin...