Word: solicited
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...order to meet the $5000 cost of last year's Virginia trip, the band found itself forced to solicit money and to draw on its reserves from the previous year. The close of the 1947 season left the organization drained of virtually all its capital...
...custom for a Scot to carry his heart on his sleeve," one letter said. "Rather would he say everything is all right, and that he is going along fine than solicit help. It's not the value of the magnificent gifts you have shipped from Boston. That is great, But more valuable still is the spirit which prompted it, and my poor words cannot adequately express my personal thanks...
...Western Maryland team that had won 27 consecutive games to a Harvard team that had won 27 consecutive games to a Harvard team that had won nothing anybody could remember for three years, and the ugly word was out that Harvard was going to indulge in underhand player solicitations. Harlow did not proselytize, solicit, or finagle. "I wanted to be associated with a decent institution before I die," he has since said. And the great triumph of his tenure at Harvard--the longest in the college's football history--is that he was able to equate the increasingly lonely standards...
Conforming to urgent requests from the settlement, the HZS will conduct a drive to raise funds, and solicit donations of second-hand books from the College students. Standard texts in bio-chemistry, organic chemistry, and all branches of biology are especially requested...
...University can do to the country by intelligent foresight and readiness to open up new fields of study." The Alumni Bulletin was speaking somewhat before the fact. In 1925, Baker, after having spent more than ten years in an attempt to persuade the University to permit him to solicit funds for a decent theatre, slipped quietly away to Yale, in what Morison calls the greatest victory of Yale over Harvard in the twentieth century. Two years later the word was revealed that one of the Harkness millions had been offered Harvard for the construction of decent theatrical facilities for Baker...