Word: attracting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paulists started the first Catholic radio station in the U.S., WLWL. They pioneered, among religious groups, the use of paid newspaper ads and car cards to attract converts, developed a nationwide mail-order lending library. Two Paulist trailer chapels operate throughout the South during the summer. Today the Paulists number 221 priests and about 150 students preparing for the priesthood. There are 27 Paulist houses, 24 of them...
...order to attract better teachers, Wilson upped salaries so that he can now pay top professors as much as $15,000 instead of only $11,500. He put through a rule that all students with a below-C average would be put on probation, even though that meant one-fourth of the student body. He started a lecture series that brings to Texas such celebrities as W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. The university now has a thriving press, and next month it will have a scholarly quarterly...
...attract top men for research. General Dynamics has set out to build what Vice President Johnson calls "a monopoly on brains,'' now employs about 22,000 engineering and scientific personnel, pays them top salaries, e.g., $25,000 to $27,000. As a further inducement, General Dynamics lets its scientists delve into the most abstruse and uncharted fields with freedom, aware that in an age of rapidly changing technology the most basic research may prove valuable-perhaps even indispensable-for some new project. But Pace realizes that profits cannot be put off forever. Says he: "When our scientists begin...
...body like jackal pups, then lose interest while a pig nuzzles the corpse. The narrator, a young farm girl, tumbles through her tale with savage glee, takes a sorrowful tone only when relating that, although old enough (14), she is not big enough (4 ft. 3 in.) to attract the soldiers' interest...
...announcing the new professorship, President Pusey noted that both at Harvard and in Boston are libraries and collections of Oriental art which attract scholars from all over the world. He expected that the occupant of the new chair would make significant contributions at a time when travel to the Far East is limited...