Word: attracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view of the small number of candidates who turned out for their first competition, the officers of the Class Album will have another meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in Shepard Hall in the hopes that good cheer and a flowing bowl will attract more prospects from the Junior Class than appeared before...
...fact that few men of importance in the nation's affairs come to Harvard to address the students on national and international problems is partially accounted for by the fact that no undergraduate organization among the numerous ephemeral pressure groups have enough prestige to attract influential people...
...H.L.D.W. is a branch of the national organization founded last May in Connecticut. The group has had no meetings as yet but, following the "first principles" of psychology, intends to publish a frequent list of members on the assumption that others' names will attract new members...
...Britain this is a real break. It will enable her to keep the earning power of her remaining U.S. assets intact for the post-war period. Moreover, it avoids forced sale of these assets at the fire-sale figures which would have to be quoted to attract war-dulled investors. The sale in May of American Viscose, which has a book value of $122,000,000 and earned $7,885,000 last year, netted only...
...Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, which three months ago decided that the best way for artists to attract the Government's attention was to compete for it, last week opened an exhibition of 30 prize-and merit-winning posters on defense subjects. They were as different from 1917's posters as World War II from War I: in none of them was any gauze, sentimentality, misty goddesses...