Word: attract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This system, by a selective process, will normally attract the more self respecting and self-reliant type of student. It has the added advantage of giving the student field work under wise supervision and of bringing the School into closer touch with the churches of the neighborhood, which are its natural constituency. Members of the entering class are received on this basis and immediately assigned, if they wish financial aid, to church positions...
...Byron forever sought the public eye; Napoleon never needed to attract it--he compelled it," said Mr. Henry J. Golding in his speech on "The Egoists, Napoleon and Byron," at the Liberal Club yesterday afternoon. Of Napoleon he said, "He was a solitary man, while Byron could never be alone with himself, even in spirit. He was not able even to judge of his own best works...
...akin to excitement. If the pound sterling is to be put back on a gold basis shortly, gold shipments to the U. S. must be prevented; and the easiest way of doing this is to keep London interest rates higher than those in Manhattan. This, of course, tends to attract capital from the U. S. to the British center, and so support the exchange rate for sterling with U. S. dollars...
...noted all over the world, but particularly in London, where it probably caused more stir than in Manhattan itself. If sterling is going to be restored to and maintained upon a gold basis, it is necessary that Manhattan moneyrates remain well below those at London, in order to attract gold to Britain rather than to repel it. When the news of the change arrived in London, the Bank of England at once began to purchase bills in the open market, with the result that market-money rates rose. London financial writers at once took this to mean that the Bank...
...fact that we, here is Cambridge, have copied German masterpieces so skillfully as to attract Germans to this country to recast our reproductions of their own originals, speaks well for the work of the University Germanic museum, and for further artistic cooperation between Germany and the United States...