Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council's German Exchange Committee here, however, plans to continue and expand the program next year. It has already been promised complete remission of tuition for the six students. A spokesman for the Committee, Kirby von Kessler '54 said yesterday that the group will solicit funds from private corporations for next year...
...tenderly moving music conceals pleasantly depraved themes. "I hold your hand in mine," be croons gently, adding later, "if only you were here." "Be Prepared!" is his rousing exhortation to the Boy Scouts, "to hold your liquor well." Then he goes on to advise his little friends, "Never solicit for your sister. It isn't nice . . . , unless you get a good percentage of the price...
Residence in a 'Cliffe hall means eating together, using communal washrooms, smoking together, and working in the dorm a couple of hours weekly. While most women's colleges solicit student help for wages, the 'Cliffedweller waits on tables, works in the kitchen, and answers telephone "bells" for nothing...
...flat's living room is dominated by a massive desk littered with papers. Books scattered through the room are beginnings to collect under the windows. At night, all the local Slavic students trickle into the apartment for little chats with Jakobson; they stop in with a question, to solicit encouragement, or to draw Jakobson into an illuminating discussion. Employing his unbelievable energy even in conversation, he gesticulates constantly, emphasizing his remarks with a stab of his hand, or by running a hand through his unkempt hair when puzzled...
...famous designer, a man like Gropins, who by his name alone could attract attention to a school. Regrettably, an artistic genius is often not a good fund raiser; usually, he has neither the inclination nor talent to search for endowments. Gropins himself, though expected by the University to solicit gifts, was content to spend his time teaching and publicizing modern architecture...