Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both The Classics and Philosophy Departments, two strongholds of faith in the need for an humanistic education despite the transitory affairs of the word, are now adjusting their traditional programs. This is the result, in part, of a desire to attract more students to those fields and to broaden the analytic powers of those already taking courses in them. Of deeper consequence however, is the realization of the necessity to straighten the lines even of subjects only remotely connected with...
Once before, the Chinese said, Japanese flyers had tried to infect a Chinese city with plague. In 1940 they had dropped infected fleas on Chekiang Province. The fleas were wrapped in little cotton bags with rice or grain, to attract the rats which catch and spread the disease. But cold killed the rats first...
Baltimore's resourceful Director Leslie Cheek Jr., who has used colored lights and even smell to attract gallerygoers to his Baltimore Museum of Art, was busy last week wiring his shop for sound. Director Cheek's sound equipment will emit both lectures and soft music through the museum's ventilating system. During the local artists' show this month, the microphones will croon such apt items as Maryland! My Maryland. A subsequent exhibition of Russian icons will be set to Russian Orthodox music...
Only a mile from Harvard Square, the Watertown Arsenal will probably attract any planes foraying in the vicinity, they explained. Flying at a speed greater than 250 miles per hour, the planes will have to release their bombs above the Yard in order to hit their objective...
...concrete). Now, if the War Production Board will permit them to use the crude rubber they have on hand and grant them 30 additional tons, tennis can do its share in the national keep-fit program-even with the 3,000,000 additional tennis bugs U.S.L.T.A. hopes to attract with arc-light tennis this summer...