Word: attracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only to smart Technician Hogan, but to its equally smart general manager-Elliott Sanger. The station started out with a collection of four or five records, which were played over & over again. Today it has a collection of 10,000 and an orchestra of its own. Its programs attract about 6,000 letters a week...
...three subterranean levels, one passes completely out of the period style of the upper rooms into the stacks, of the very latest design, which will accomodate the great majority of the present total of 10,000 books. Illuminated by blue tubular lights, the stacks are made to attract bequests from private collectors since a section of the shelves can be set off and made into a separate room devoted entirely, to one collection...
Humidity and temperture in the stacks are made to attract bequests are kept constant by a giant air-conditioning system which is installed on the ground floor of Widener. But even without this apparatus, the experts maintain that the thick insulation in the walls, of the building could alone keep conditions ideal for the most delicate volumes for three days...
...Peace promises had been flung back in the President's face by a Senate bloc which knew that a two-thirds majority was necessary to ratify treaties. The Senate had adjourned and hurried home to campaign--many Senators fanning the hates and fears engendered by the struggle, trying to attract unemployed ex-soldiers and harried owners of overdeveloped war industries by a wild cry of "From Canada to the Canal! Push the border South! This is the American Century...
...over the country, could shed light on this darkness, and provide a political bill of fare for the socially unconscious majority, to rival the literary and artistic offerings of which Harvard is justly proud. It could draw big-name speakers to Harvard that small groups cannot hope to attract. It could organize thorough and frequent discussions on current affairs, which would not suffer from any partisan aims. It could prepare reading lists which might be used independently or in connection with tutorial work. Such a forum could profit from the experience of the American Civilization Program which was recently attempted...