Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million drive will solicit funds from Harvard alumni for the renovation of existing athletic facilities and for new construction, including an athletic complex on Observatory Hill to serve the Quadrangle Houses...
About 50 members of the Class of 1969 passed a resolution at the Class's fifth reunion Saturday calling on its officers to solicit class donations for the DuBois Institute, the Afro-American Cultural Center, unionization at Harvard and the admission and hiring of women...
...result of polio, he resolutely hiked and climbed until he had built up his limbs-and a lifelong commitment to the environment. His first teen-age encounter with the law made a lasting impression too; Orville (as he was then unhappily known) was hired by a local bluenose to solicit offers from prostitutes so he could turn them in to the police. He wound up sympathizing with the ladies, and detesting the minions of the law. In later years, Douglas became a fervent supporter of the Warren Court decisions limiting police powers and protecting individual privacy...
...Fred La Rue [a former Mitchell aide] doing it. Now Fred started out going out trying to solicit money from all kinds of people...
...about a newspaper when it earns enough for the publisher to join the country club." That is not something that Troy's readers need fear. The Observer lost $18,000 during his first year, finally edged $9,800 into the black in 1973. Troy makes no effort to solicit advertisers, and sometimes bites those few who feed him; two utility companies, among the paper's largest accounts, pulled out after Troy editorially championed a statutory limit on the industry's advertising. He supplements his income by lecturing to civic groups and his talks are part...