Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That democracy cannot function in a vacuum of public indifference must have become painfully apparent to all interested parties after Thursday's Student Council election. Coming as it did after three months of the most intensive publicity the Council has ever received, the election nevertheless failed to attract even the ballots of more than half the eligible voters, and from results, a serious percentage of those seem to indicate a lack of any genuine interest in the struggling student government...
...Gaulle's open opposition (he wants a strong executive branch) will attract many votes; he is especially popular among peasants and women of all classes...
Relatively new in the British government. Labor peers, though members of a legislative body having little apparent power, have great influence in presenting their party views to the House of Lords, where debates attract a good deal of attention...
When cold grains of matter are present, said Dr. Spitzer, the gas molecules collide with them. This reduces the molecules' velocity (the same thing as their temperature). Then they adhere to the grains, making them bigger. Eventually the grains get big enough to attract one another by gravitation. The little clot grows to a bigger clot. In a billion years or so, a star is born...
...three-day symposium, as sketched, would be unique in American musical history, designed to attract scores of critics, writers, musicians, composers, and teachers to the University in May. The central portion of the meeting would consist of talks in Sanders Theatre by widely-known experts on many facets of the various musical fields. Nightly concerts featuring new works by noted composers are projected...