Word: attracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first ski competitions of the winter will be the Lebanon, New Hampshire, jumps and cross country races today and tomorrow. Because all previously scheduled events have been cancelled this winter, the Lebanon competitions are expected to attract a big field of experienced entrants...
...present one-hour limit on side streets doesn't give the average shopper enough time to make all his purchases without coming back to renew the meter," Dow explained. A two-hour limit might also attract new customers to Square stores, since it would be possible for them to park their cars a few blocks away and make all their purchases within the meter time-limit, he added...
Gootenberg claims that RKO and Universal are the few outlets which can supply the films which will attract large audiences. In past months the H.L.U. has shown Citizen Kane, Great Expectations and a number of Charlie Chaplin films...
...virtue of alliance between all groups in Congress--there were a lot of Democrats in those two-thirds majorities. Mr. Truman's record up to last summer was so colorless that Republican leaders deemed a campaign unnecessary, thought they would lose less votes by avoiding commitments than they would attract by lavish promises. The President's margin of victory largely represents stay-at-home Republicans, who, confronted with a choice between no program and the Truman deal, avoided the dilemma by voting for neither...
...must be Christ returned." A Courbevoie worker wrote: "This is our last hope." Recently Garry Davis filled the Salle Pleyel and the Velodrome d'Hiver, two big auditoriums in Paris, with cheering thousands-crowds such as only Charles de Gaulle, and possibly Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, could attract. His committee of support includes Albert Einstein, who cabled that "only the unbendable will of the people can free the forces which are necessary for such a radical break with the old and outlived tradition in politics"; the U.S. ex-Communist writer Richard Wright (Native Son) is another Davisite. Says Wright...