Word: cater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Originally, G. S. was intended to cater to an older clientele than Columbia College. It offers a B.S. degree which has shifted off its scientific base and become a looser type of B.A. to people who have either matriculated or can show evidence that they will be able to carry on the G. S. course...
...tone of Edgar Allan Poe. In 1930, his poetry won him a Pulitzer Prize. Since then, Aiken has increasingly found himself in the painful position of the good minor writer who has ceased to be a novelty, his name well known but his work little read. Never one to cater to literary fashion, Aiken has continued to write as he sees fit. Since his first book of verse in 1914, he has written some 30 volumes of poetry and fiction, all marked by integrity and patent earnestness...
...when for friends you cater...
Except for one answer which suggested that Harvard by its historical, geographical, and economic position ought to cater more to Massachusetts natives, comments on the University admissions policy generally praised it as fair. One answer went so far as to label the Fair Education Practices Act a "vile insult to my own college." Several voiced doubts about the absolute absence of unfair discrimination in the Medical School, however...
...world is not really a man's world, at least as far as clothes are concerned. Who, after all, looks at men but women? Men, unlike the opposite sex, do not cater to other men in matters of dress; they dress to please themselves, or less frequently, to please the women in their lives...