Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intend to trim home prices from this year's median of $15,100, to $14,950 in 1962. Behind the decision to cut prices are several factors: stiff competition, fears that the higher-priced market is saturated, and expectations that new FHA rules permitting smaller down payments will attract more lower-income families. More efficient building methods and increasing reliance on prebuilt parts will help bring prices down...
...without question the biggest reason for the football band's dilemma is the new type of student entering Harvard. "We don't attract as many wonks," Marmor asserts, "because there aren't as many wonks in the College." The stiff competition for admission has, as the Bender report warned, led increasingly to a student body of studiers, who have little inclination to abandon the library for football drills. Ned Alpers, the new band manager, warns that it is "useless" to continue "whining for the old band," because the kind of people who composed it are no longer around. Alper feels...
...future student recitals, and particularly more by Mr. Boyk, offer more good music performed as well, perhaps they will attract the audience this recital deserved...
Cats take sex seriously, as anyone who has tuned in on a city backyard on a summer night can testify. The unaltered male is belligerent, grumpy, concentrates only on the sex or lack of it in his life; his urine contains a special additive that can attract a romantically inclined female at a range of 150 yards. And the unspayed female makes a rotten pet. When in heat (in some cats, as often as every two weeks), she becomes outrageously wanton, rolling about, rubbing herself suggestively on the furniture, and yelling for a mate. To stop this erotic behavior before...
...department to offset the fragmentation caused by others has its drawbacks as a measure of logic; and it is difficult to believe that either Harvard or Chicago, having once decided to borrow personnel on a part-time basis from the existing Departments, would have been able to attract men for the new courses without allowing some degree of freedom in both method and subject matter...