Word: elicited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the politician who promised the farmers that their wheat would sell at $1.00 a bushel could surely elicit their applause and probably their votes. Today, after the huge war prices for grain, no little consternation was caused when wheat descended on the Chicago market under $1.00 a bushel for the first time since the outbreak of the War. Since the price of wheat will prove a major factor in electing our next President, politicians as well as farmers and speculators are now studying the wheat situation...
...record of the summer's work of the Association was such as to elicit the warmest praise from the French architects and government officials under whom they worked. In the Department of the Meuse the students completed the surveys of four villages, Etain, Belleville, Vacherauville, and Clermonten-Argonne, and of one in the Aisne, as well as partly surveying the city of Verdun. The New York Herald, Paris edition, quotes the head engineer of Verdun as saying, "No surveyors ever in my employ have done such accurate or such rapid work as the American students...
...Playgoer, contrary to his custom, reprints below parts of a very unusual criticism of stock-company work. Mr. Parker, the "H. T. P." of the Boston Transcript, is the critic. A company which can elicit such praise from "H. T. P." surely deserves double credit. The quotation follows...
Next comes the act of Wilbur Swetman, the original and much imitated ragtime clarinettist, which although it shows Mr. Swetman to be a past-master at his art, does not elicit a great deal of applause from the audience. Perhaps however, this is because Boston people do not appreciate jazz music...
...moment disregard the source of this suggestion, since any regard for it would elicit the inevitable cynicism: "Can any good come out of Nazareth?" Let us rather consider the applicability of the suggestion to our own, University. Is it certain that the project is too ideal? Is it certain that it would be difficult to determine the exact measure of the contribution? Surely the unit cost of a Bachelor's degree has been calculated by some one and is known to some one. It is not unreasonable to ask all who receive Bachelor's degrees to pay for what they...