Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...existence of formal leagues in basketball, baseball, hockey, track, swimmis, tennis, and soccer has enhanced the prestige of these sports, the incentive of the players, and the interest of spectators, the Dartmouth magazine said...
...story of this important booklet may interest you. It begins with E. K. Gubin, a Washington, D.C. attorney and consultant in governmental law and procedure, who was asked by some of his former San Francisco clients last spring how they were to go about doing business under the Marshall Plan. Gubin's replies only encouraged these export-importers to ask more questions by return mail...
...determination to get a 22-year-overdue engagement ring; but it somehow seems much more cooked up. For Father had soured on engagement rings through being engaged before, and his old love plays a rather comic-strip role in the new play. Life With Mother also gains in interest rather than value through Cousin Cora's marriage and Clarence Jr.'s short-lived engagement to the girl next door...
...Peoria hotel room. Also present were "Big Earl" Shelton and two of his henchmen. Earl was anxious to know who had killed Bernie and Carl (who had been murdered a year ago), and whether his number was up too. Link and the Post-Dispatch had a bigger interest in the case: they wanted to find out if Illinois gamblers had killed Bernie and if they had connections with Governor Green's machine...
...famous actress, make it more than plain. The book is a suave and ironic rewriting of the classic morality tales of English literature, its lesson as plain as the moral of A Christmas Carol or The Great Stone Face. Since it is written by a craftsman, Catalina has enough interest and enough humor to keep it going, and not too much of anything-not too much of the supernatural to be unbelievable, not too much wit to tax the reader's attention, not too much irony to make it too involved, not too much skepticism or too much belief...