Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Always Available. For a young Republican Congressman in a hurry, the New Deal days were pretty good ones. The Republican ranks were pitifully thin. The party was about as low in spirit as it could get. A newcomer with energy and ability was bound to attract notice -and Halleck had both energy and ability. "I immediately got active on the floor," he recalls, "and whatever assignment I got, I immediately went to work on it. And I hunted around for places to do things." Before long he had earned the nickname "Available Charlie.'' He was clearly a comer...
Fitgzerald continued, saying that "the strange thing is that some of the guys who drove up did better than the guys who took the plane." He also wondered why the University goes out of its way to attract athletes and then refuses to support them. "It's especially hard for guys on the borderline; they do their darndest for the school, then they have to take the car," he stated...
Weediest Case. In San Fernando, Calif., Gary L. Seybert explained to police investigating the marijuana growing in his garden: "A guy gave me the seeds and told me they would attract all the rabbits I can shoot...
...residential College is willing to sacrifice a little convenience to make the commuter's education for more valuable. Commuting has become a convenient way to add flexibility to the enrollment, but it should also, as Master Leighton points out, be a real educational opportunity. If the College hopes to attract more able commuters, it must make them something more than visitors to classes, and it must take them out of their separated facility and bring them into the College...
Beside these research exhibits, the Museum must also be concerned about its displays for the general public, for these shows "at the level of Anthropology 1" attract the greatest number of visitors. Poor lighting and insufficient labelling plague many of these exhibitions in the large halls. For example, the nineteen cases of African specimens on the fifth floor are illumined by only two lamps in the center of the room. To make matters worse, the shades are drawn presumabaly to prevent the exhibits from fading...