Word: attracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consideration of the question of football scholarships, Harvard stands in a favored position. It has plenty of ivy and class, it has the journalistic prestige that means headlines for star performers, and it even has a vague quality known as "educational opportunities" which might attract a stray athletic now and then. On top of all these inducements Harvard has the richest alumni body and the largest financial endowment of any university in the country...
...Billings and Stover, Apothecaries." Two simple panels, each supporting a wooden mixing jar and twin glasses of chemically colored water, are all that adorn the "show" windows. The fact is that the firm of Billings and Stover doesn't have to advertise or dress up in order to attract customers; it has been going strong ever since...
...customary, the Crimson's first competition of the year, getting under way this evening, is primarily intended to attract the College's Sophomore talent. Members of the Class of '43 will be eligible for positions on the Editorial, Photographic, and Business Boards. If you want to take an active part in shaping and interpreting campus opinion, if you would like a taste of commercial photography with top-notch equipment, if you want practical business experience--you're looking for a place on the Crimson...
Last week the commissioned gnomes who do the U. S. Army's higher bookkeeping in Washington had to tear up their old pay tables, get to work on new ones. Reason: Congress had voted, along with conscription, to attract young volunteers into the Army and Marine Corps by upping the pay of buck privates from $21 to $30 a month. Also voted were increases for first-class privates (from $30 to $36 a month), corporals ($42 to $54), sergeants ($54 to $60).* The raises would be effective only after four months of service. To many prospective volunteers these looked...
Nelson Gidding's "Act With The Stars" and John Bonner's "The Boy-Girl Relationship" attract because they have a charm and lack of pretension that is missing from some of the other stories. Most of Mother Advocate's sons know better, but some of them seem unable to resist looking back over their shoulder at the devil of pseudo-sophistication. Two of the other three short stories, by William Abrahams and Martin Collins Johnson, slip at different moments into this fault. The third, Edward Pols' "Porphyro and the Beadsman," is a tedious attempt at a difficult mental portrait which...