Word: attract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dentists outnumber restaurants in Harvard Square, and lawyers are more numerous than laundries, it is revealed in a recent compilation of stores and offices in this vicinity. A survey of the 141 stores and 10 office buildings in the Square shows an infinite variety of businesses to attract trade...
...brought about by formalism and purely academic interchanges and contacts. Harvard has an ambition to be more than the provincial New England college that she used to be; she desires to serve in educational matters as a truly national university. To that end, she in 1925 frankly undertook to attract more promising material from the South and West. Admission had always been by special examinations, which were very difficult for graduates of even the best Western schools; but in 1925 Harvard rules to accept, without examination, from states South of the Ohio river and west of the Mississippi, boys...
...maintenance of a modern educational plant. But the irresistible argument for the higher fee is the necessity of enabling the teaching force to meet the higher cost of living. It is, of course, impossible to offer the teacher, whether in the academic or professional school, a salary which will attract men and women in competition with the greater prizes in other callings; but it is clearly in the interest of efficiency that the teacher should receive a stipend adequate to the needs of the civilized life, one which will enable him to give his time and thought to fulfilling...
...wishing to attract undue attention to himself, Author Roosevelt assures readers that "Our family is certainly no different in any material way from hundreds of thousands of others from Walla Walla to New York." He weaves a fabric of enchanted mediocrity about the venerable Roosevelt freehold, "Sagamore" (Oyster Bay, L. I.), in a book that is a medley of anecdotage about his clan's everyday affairs, many of which have been set down in his father's letters or elsewhere. The burial of pets, camping, meals, games, sports are all dealt with in a fair approximation...
...will and malice." Commented Mrs. Robert Patterson Lament, wife of the Secretary of Commerce, who entertained Count Keyserling last year in Chicago: "If he disliked Chicago . . . I think the fault must have been with him." Commented another Chicago Keyserling hostess: "I rather think he wrote what he wrote ... to attract attention...