Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference of statisticians to make the first comprehensive survey of the needs of Africa as a whole. It made plans for a study of resources and power, for a board of experts to act as permanent economic advisers, for a training program for Africans, and for ways to attract capital, promote trade, and improve transportation on a continent-wide basis...
...speedily built it into the operatic showcase of a city that also boasts the East Berlin State Opera and the vigorously competing West Berlin Municipal Opera. In a kind of operatic cold war, Felsenstein's now classic productions of Carmen, Tales of Hoffmann, The Bartered Bride attract as many operagoers from West Berlin (where Fetsenstein lives for maximum comfort) as from the Eastern sector...
...Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad will cut sleeping-and parlor-car round-trip fares 28% for nine months to see whether lower fares will attract new riders. Sample: Chicago-to-Denver round-trip fare, including Pullman Roomette, will be $84 v. $123 for first-class air travel...
...Academic Disciplines, which will help coordinate the efforts of Pitt's various schools and departments. Said Financier Paul Mellon,* Yaleman ('29) and chairman of the trust: "This grant is made with the understanding that the salaries paid to the Andrew Mellon professors will be such as to attract eminent men capable of distinguished scholarship . . . and will be commensurate with or superior to the best salaries paid in like fields in any other American university [best guess: $20,000 or more]. It is hoped that this nucleus of distinguished scholars and students may set a standard and a goal...
...League must fight off competition from within and without when trying to attract the limited number of bright athletes to its institutions. It is a matter of "meeting competition where it exists." Football, basketball, hockey, and track--in roughly that order--demand hustle and initiative by coaches or alumni or both, if they are to survive in an Ivy League college...