Word: attracting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raymond, A. Fitzgerald, deputy state commissioner of education and originator of the plan, said he thought it was better to improve existing institutions than to build new ones. He claimed the 1000 scholarships would keep top scholars from going out of the state and attract them to state schools...
...does not lie in our mouths to criticize the student body at Cambridge. Its character is substantially affected by our inactivity. Our duty is to cooperate with the College authorities in organized, intelligent effort to attract the finest young men whom our country produces . . . The suggestion that the Committee discriminates against football players appears to me incapable of proof, inherently improbable, and entirely at variance with the character and standing of the Committee, composed as it is of wise and able men. It would be more accurate to say that the Committee on Admissions endeavors to apply standards similar...
...healthy baby actually being suffocated would fight for life and yell to attract attention, says Dr. Bowden. "Why," he asks, "should a healthy baby die without much fuss just because he is face downward or his face is covered? But a baby dying of natural disease might well be expected to make a quiet exit...
...average student was unfortunately less receptive to music than was the janitor--it was still a novelty in the curriculum--and for a few years the Music Building was not too well attended. The Department even found it necessary to keep its introductory courses "sugar-coated" to attract customers. But an energetic faculty and a rising interest in music have changed all this. Prominent musicians, Wanda Landowska among others, came to give lectures and concerts in the auditorium; the Charles Eliot Norton Fund brought Stravinsky and, this year, Paul Hindemith, as visiting lecturers...
What, then, is their aim? To satisfy fashion, Sit. This is their aim. And fashionable is another word for immature To achieve a balance between the desire to attract and the need to be in fashion has been a problem for civilized women in all ages. We are living in an age when the balance is preponderantly unfavorable to the male...