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Word: solicits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, Life has energy and it has Harris, an Irish actor who at 29 is being touted as Britain's Brando. He does solicit the comparison, but happily he also displays two striking qualities of his own: a crude but considerable sense of gesture and violent vitality. He also has the careless Irish charm. At a rich man's party, the big slummox grabs a bottle of beer and then, grand as a lord, leans over and uses the nearest Bentley for a bottle opener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slummox | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...passed its initial period, and is trying to develop a more permanent structure that will advance its dual goals of benefiting the schools and volunteers. In the belief that teaching is one of the most valuable types of volunteer experience, PBH has recently refused HUT permission to solicit funds for paying its volunteers...

Author: By Richard L. Levine, | Title: Undergraduate Teacher Program Faces Problems of Acceptance and Expansion | 4/24/1963 | See Source »

Wickham and a team of 12 'Poonies will invade New York City during spring vacation to shoot photographs and solicit advertising for their issue. They will stay at the Waldorf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Lampoon' to Parody 'Esquire' Magazine In July Issue of 'Mlle.' | 3/16/1963 | See Source »

...Companion, have folded in the past seven years. Last month the Saturday Evening Post, which used to receive 100,000 unsolicited manuscripts a year, announced that henceforth all of them would be sent back unopened. Havemann's reputation insulates him from such vicissitudes. He does not have to solicit magazines; they solicit him. Of every four articles he writes, three stem from some editor's suggestion. "I can't imagine a story I'd turn down," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: King of the Lancers | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...plans to solicit various Boston and New York publishing houses for the books. A high-ranking Boston school official has already thrown his support behind the idea of administering the program through the schools, rather than various settlement houses and neighborhood centers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH to Give Books to Youngsters In Effort to Improve Verbal Skills | 12/15/1962 | See Source »

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