Word: attractiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week of feverish activity, has pointed out a new difficulty for the organizations competing for the student's free time. They must find some way of casing the current battle for support which last night saw five major events--forums, concerts, and lectures--engage in a conflicting struggle to attract the potentially interested. Under any circumstances such a plethora of time killers would tax the attention of the student body. Some are doomed to fall short of the audience they would have a right to expect on a less eventful evening...
...Both drawing and typewriting attract and interest children, while calligraphy is painful or tiring for most little children to learn...
...best compromise would be to increase the number of informal dances rather than diminish the number of formals. More informals, closed if necessary, would undoubtedly attract the gentlemen of moderate means. To further the promotion of social harmony, the record dance program should be enlarged and if possible, established on a College-wide basis for reduction in cost...
Boston College officials are anxious to schedule attractive college bills, hoping to attract the lukewarm basketball...
...Last week George Bernard Shaw came up with a belated version of Franklin Roosevelt's abandoned Passamaquoddy project of 1935. G.B.S. proposed harnessing the swirling tides in Scotland's narrow inlets to avert future crises. He added a petulant note: "My suggestions usually take 30 years to attract any attention...