Word: attracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to get the same top-quality treatment of these burning contemporary questions, younger men must be encouraged, and encouraged with the importance of their contribution kept fully in mind. The creation of even half-dozen assistant professorships would not be too high a payment to make, it would attract to Harvard, or keep at Harvard the best of our generation of political scholars. For a generation lost in Government is the same as centuries in many other fields...
About the ancient languages requirement for the A.B. which would be dropped if the motion before the Faculty passes, the report reads: "For a College whose policy has been to attract men from all types . . . of backgrounds, we approve of the Committee on Admission's present emphasis on 'quantity of work' in school in a 'well-rounded adapted to the ability of the individual...
Sponsored by a small group under the leadership of Howard P. Buehler '49, at present working through the dean's office to procure recognition for a world government group in the University, the meeting is expected to attract a number of Wellesley girls who have been the leading spokesmen for this student movement in New England...
Both sides had planned carefully. Spanish Republicans had announced a "month of agitation" to attract U.N. attention to Franco repression. But the Caudillo acted first, suddenly uncovered for U.N. gaze a Communist cell conspiring in Madrid, claimed to have bagged the entire central committee of the Spanish Communist Party. He clapped some 70 persons into prison incommunicado. Next day, as if with damp fuses, 14 bombs burst belatedly in front of Madrid food shops...
...hailed Mexico's 1938 expropriation of foreign oil companies as a "continental guide" for the assertion of national sovereignty. To some Mexicans Arévalo's brave words may have sounded like mention of rope in the house of the hanged; Mexico today is pondering how to attract foreign capital to help reorganize her hopelessly inefficient oil industry. But Arevalo had a purpose. He was talking at the United Fruit Co., whose north coast plantations had been paralyzed for four weeks by the largest strike in Guatemalan history...