Word: solicitous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These elections are purely a student affair. It is up to the students themselves to show interest. One cannot expect a committee to sacrifice the time and expense to arouse enthusiasm and to solicit the attention of members of another class to vote for officers of this other class. If a man has enough interest to vote surely he can find it convenient to go to one of three places sometime during an entire morning. Those who have not sufficient interest need not be surprised at the outcome nor take it upon themselves to criticize a result which indeed they...
Questioned by a U. S. correspondent as to whether he would "solicit" Soviet Russia to join his prospective Union, M. Briand bristled visibly. "The word 'solicit'," he snapped, "has an aristocratic air not in keeping with the democracy of the League of Nations. ... I won't say whether Russia will be 'solicited' or not. ... It will be very probable that this new institution will be open to all European nations...
...chief office of the business candidates will be to solicit advertisements in Cambridge and Boston. Opportunity for contact with business leaders is afforded which should prove most helpful in the training of efficient business editors...
...President Coolidge authorized Washington Community Chest official to solicit contributions from Federal employes. Hitherto this privilege has been extended only to the Salvation Army and the Red Cross...
...There will be two divisions for solicitation, namely (a) to solicit the small donors (b) to solicit the large donors...