Word: cater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be enrolled in the University post-graduate schools, as more draft-exempt students boost lagging figures by taking up the study of engineering, law, arts and sciences, dentistry, public administration, and education. The Divinity School will enroll 75 4-D's, while the School of Public Health will cater to 40 students...
...coming Chevrolet-and the modernizing influence of his late son Edsel-forced him to junk Model T in 1927. By then he had lost a big chunk of the cheap-car market. He has never regained it. From then on Edsel's influence caused the Ford Co. to cater to the public. Edsel established the styling division-Fords had been designed by Detroit's Briggs Manufacturing Co. up till then-made Fords slicker, more eye-pleasing. He launched the Zephyr and the luxurious Lincoln-Continental. With his death (TIME, June 7) all this was bound to change...
...attentive assistants has meant much to the University. When the training of fighting men depends on the knowledge which they can gain from books, all possible expediency should be exercised in getting the agents of knowledge to the men promptly. In addition to the service men, the library must cater to a student body which is intensifying its courses in order to get in as much learning as possible before induction into the armed forces. The library and the librarians have tried to live up to these needs, explained Metcalf
...Douglas Cater...
...Tarrytown, N.Y. a guesthouse for sailors on leave. The Navy announced that the chosen sailors "lounge on luxurious chairs, eat off an old Italian table brought from a monastery, walk on Oriental rugs, store their clothes in huge old French armoires. ... A butler, cook, housekeeper and other servants cater to every wish. . . . Meals are served at every hour...