Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...narrow as to keep out many of the best men for 20th-century jobs. To an applauding House of Commons he announced that hereafter posts in a combined Foreign Office-diplomatic-consular service* would be available to all on the basis of ability. Presumably salaries will be raised to attract men without private incomes. Himself a wearer of the oldest Old School Tie (Eton's black and light blue), Anthony Eden confined his reasons to the dignified statement that "the reforms we propose will not only increase efficiency but will also make our diplomacy more representative of the country...
...Limited and temporary salary cuts in Departments where "there is any unanimity of opinion as to cutting salaries rather than materially impair teaching." The University's traditional policy has been to attract brilliant but high-priced men from lucrative professions by paying for them liberally; hence salary cuts were banned in the present situation...
...triumph of political luck and wangling. During World War I he obtained the command of 25 mobile naval guns ashore, fighting at the Somme and Verdun. He later explained that he had wanted the job because as a Navy officer under Army officers he would get more attention, attract more patronage...
Winding up the official ski-racing season at Pinkham Notch when most students are already tossing baseballs or rowing, the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom on the Tuckerman Ravine headwall will attract an estimated 50 or more racers from both colleges next Sunday...
Making these improvements should certainly attract 175 more Yardlings, in all enough to more than pay the added $700 expenses. What you get is a real Freshman Jubilee, not a second rate dance for the one-quarter of the class which can afford to cough up $5.50 for a mediocre evening...