Word: attractiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they'd get to work on that angle. Well, over twelve months have passed and no action has been taken. In the meantime such organizations as the National Institute of Public Affairs has been organized which "looks to the development of a new and most necessary tradition which will attract to public affairs the well trained young people of high character and ability. . ." This crowd, by the way, is being partly supported by one of the biggest conservative bankers that ever issued a note. . . This bright-young-men-in-the-government stuff is O.K., but you never see in print...
...great universities it is considered the height of academic distinction to receive an invitation from Harvard--and to decline it. Without complacence Harvard can accept the compliment implied in this witticism. "We cannot ignore the fact," said President Conant in his annual report, "that it is increasingly difficult to attract from other universities and research institutes the out standing men whom we desire." Harvard must, as the President suggested, make academic life more attractive in Cambridge...
...called chloroplasts where it comes in contact with carbon dioxide in the air. When the sun is shining a molecule of proto-chlorophyll, stimulated by an atom of magnesium which holds it together, absorbs four quanta of energy from a sunbeam. The extra energy enables the proto-chlorophyll to attract carbon dioxide, kick off the oxygen which it does not require, absorb the carbon. At that instant the colorless proto-chlorophyll becomes chlorophyll and makes the grass green...
Under the new plan it is thought it would be possible to attract a large gate from the crowd that pours into New London for the races and has the entire morning to spend with only the Freshman and combination boat races as events to occupy their time...
...first Dali canvas to attract general U.S. attention was shown at last summer's Century of Progress Exhibition under its official title, The Persistence of Memory. All Chicago knew it as "The Wet Watches." (see cut, p. 44). In the foreground were four great watches. One dripped over the edge of a table like so much melting butter. A second, like an old washrag, hung over a dead branch. The third reposed on the back of a small monster with a long delicate nose. The fourth, rigid, was crawling with ants...