Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike the smoke-filled, dimly lit coffee houses found in Cambridge and elsewhere, the Cafe Pamplona does not attract the bearded, beat set. (Miss Yanguas thinks that perhaps the light keeps the bohemians away.) Her clientele ranges from the international set to the solitary student who comes in to study in the peaceful atmosphere...
...Peters, Dean of Men, will soon leave Philadelphia for a week of canvassing the Kansas City-St. Louis area. Only one of many administration and faculty members who search the country yearly for Penn prospects, he will visit 20 schools and numerous alumni groups in an attempt to attract good students from beyond the limits of the Main Line...
...complementary features of the University and the city. Harvard obviously has a deep interest in a healthy Cambridge, for any other climate could eventually be nothing but detrimental to the academic atmosphere. During the Program for Harvard College, Pusey said one goal of the fund-raising was "to attract to Cambridge a constellation of the world's great minds, making the banks of the Charles--from the research centers beyond M.I.T. at the southern extremity as far as Eliot House on the north--a world capital of knowledge and research." Without a flourishing city, this dream could not come true...
...attract outside help in salvaging and preserving works in the area, the Egyptian government has offered liberal terms, even allowing the removal of several complete temples for reconstruction elsewhere...
...process, however, Wright created new problems. While his structure, shaped like a snail shell with portholes, may attract, it also repels as no mere skyscraper can. In his grand manner he committed glaring faults (for instance, the office space was designed for gnomes...