Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HarBus has been eager to print dissenting columns from members of Afro. Both Chokel and Schmidt have made concerted efforts to attract black reporters to the HarBus and Schmidt finally succeeded, with a story in the April 16 issue which Afro still branded as racist...
Harkness had the technical knowhow and the recruiting prowess to make any school into a hockey factory. But he needed a place that condoned that kind of program, a place whose academic reputation would be strong enough to attract people who didn't just want three letters in hockey to show for four years at college. Cornell gave Harkness carte blanche to construct his awesome machines, admitted the Canadian imports he wanted, covered him when he went out of bounds (as in the McGuinn case), and sat back to enjoy the results-five Ivy championships, four ECAC titles...
...middle class will be slowly squeezed out." Smith said. Though Peterson agreed, he added that Harvard's smaller size-as compared to most state universities-could help to attract continued applications from middle class students...
There is a period of history that rests in lirnbo-long enough ago so that memories tend to get foggy, yet too near to attract the historian's serious attention. Even last year belongs in that category. What of man's first lunar landing? Initial disengagement from Viet Nam? Student radicalism? Growing dope addiction among the very young? Chappaquiddick? The Women's Liberation Movement? With this in mind, the editors of Time-Life Books, in conjunction with TIME'S editorial staff, have produced "1969, The Year in Review," 240 pages long, with more than 200 photographs...
...shop on Dryades Street, the main drag of the New Orleans ghetto. Blacks had boycotted white merchants on Dryades Street some years earlier (because they employed few Negroes), and Willis and Dural thought they only had to advertise the presence of a black-owned shop to attract buyers...