Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perennial February function is indeed the best-known feature of this monastic college. Although the purpose of the Carnival may have degenerated from the intention expressed at the Carnival's inception in 1911--to have "good, wholesome, outdoor fun," into a device to give Dartmouth sufficient appeal to attract women there, it does serve this purpose, as well as that of being the major unifying activity of the college...
Either-Or. Columbia's 87-year-old Dr. Suzuki, whose weekly lectures attract a well-packed but mixed bag of serious students and cult shoppers, is one of the most respected religious leaders in America. His classes are drawing a wider variety as well as a larger number of students since the war. Painters and psychiatrists seem especially interested in Zen, he finds. Psychoanalysts, says Dr. Suzuki, his tiny eyes twinkling under winglike eyebrows, have a lot to learn from Zen: "They go round and round on the surface of the mind without stopping. But Zen goes deep...
...corporation after corporation, cut off from long-term loans by tight money, floated bonds to pay for their enormous expansion. In 1956 a record 1,843 new bond issues worth $12.3 billion were floated. Since most of the new issues were forced to offer higher interest rates to attract investors, prices of older, less profitable bonds dropped. Thus the average price of all listed domestic bonds on the New York Stock Exchange tumbled from 97.37 in December 1955 to 92.42 at the end of November 1956, and their market value dropped sharply to more than $9 billion below face value...
...children's accounts totaling $25 million. Other banks are learning the same lesson. New York's Dollar Savings Bank has discovered that juvenile savers not only increase its immediate funds but that 75% of them keep their accounts into adulthood. Every banker is doing his best to attract savings from U.S. women, even go so far as to hire home economists to give household financial advice in an effort to attract the housewife's savings dollar. Beyond that, bankers, who once contented themselves with all- purpose savings accounts, are luring millions in new funds with such special ideas as Christmas...
...Theta Puzzle. Last summer two daring theorists, both of them Chinese, challenged parity. Professors Tsung Dao Lee of Columbia and Chen Ning Yang of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton were visiting Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory, whose pleasant summer climate and massive equipment attract vacationing physicists from all over the country. A leading topic at bull sessions, some of them held alfresco on Westhampton Beach, was the "tau-theta puzzle," which many leading physicists have been trying manfully to crack since...