Word: attract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debate rolled into its second week, Speaker Sam Rayburn made one last effort to break the impasse. Knowing that the Administration's bill was a lost cause, he and his aides had cooked up five compromises which they hoped would attract votes. The provisions, with a few minor changes, were lifted from the Taft-Hartley Act itself. The most important of them was the one giving the President authority to use the weapon of injunction in national-emergency strikes...
...difference between the two fields, Chemistry and Physics, and Physics and Chemistry seems to be sufficiently great to attract eight freshmen to the former and only one to the latter. According to Kennedy, the difference lies only in emphasis...
Crimson debaters Donald A. Gianella '51 and David M. Heer '50 held that a university was better than a college on academic, social, and preparatory grounds. The university with its greater wealth can retain the best professors in every field they said. It can also attract a greater variety of students from all locates and economic levels with its prestige and endowment, thus furnishing the best association for men in training for life in society, according to their argument...
Stoke had his own answers handy. He pestered the legislature until he had enough money to give his whole faculty a raise: he wanted L.S.U., already well-staffed in many departments, to be able to attract the best academic talent available. He campaigned (though without success) to get the system of political scholarships replaced by a competitive plan. He deprived his deans of their arbitrary power over faculty hiring & firing. He revived faculty meetings, and for the first time in years, gave professors and instructors a say in running the university...
...earth's new-found neighbors are not the kind to attract attention to themselves. Dr. Luyten, Java-born and Holland-educated, discovered them only by comparing photographic plates made at the Harvard College Observatory's station in South Africa in 1930 with other plates made there in 1944. So shy and retiring are the twins that their light would have to be 100 times stronger than it is to be seen by the naked...