Word: attracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jazz flourished in Chicago, there used to be great jam sessions in hotspots after closing time. By 1936 hot jazz had weaned a commercially successful but adulterated form of itself: swing. Today, it is commercial swing und the smooth, symphonic arrangements of name bands that make big money and attract jitterbugs...
...good deed is to rehabilitate a pretty stay-at-home (Donna Reed) who is letting her divorced parents ruin her life. He teaches her how to attract boys, gets her a boy friend, and departs, wondering why he didn't fall in love with her himself. The fact that he didn't will be recognized by all Hardyites as the passage of another milestone in Andrew Hardy's career...
...courts and diamonds. But coaches and authorities alike expect to see a great number of the physical-conscious members of '43 and '44 taking advantage of opportunities to play a set or nine innings as part of the conditioning plan. Tennis, normally the most popular spring sport, will probably attract a great part of the upperclassmen, while others will complete in ball games or crew...
With its opening meeting Tuesday night, a regular 20-hour course is to be conducted by members of the Medical School Faculty for Winthrop and Lowell Houses. Half of the program will be given in each House, and it is expected that the course will also attract men from Adams where at the present time the interest does not warrant a separate class...
...look between the toes." All kinds of decoys may be used to stop cyclists and staff cars or to make them swerve and crash: a couple of baby carriages covered with sacking, a pair of old auto headlamps, operated on batteries, set in the middle of the road. "To attract the closest attention of enemy car drivers or guards, prop up a dead Nazi where they will...