Word: lure
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Autumn, when the harvest is over and the pumpkins are growing ripe, U. S. farmers have time to go to the cities, to make merry and to buy. To lure them many a city holds fairs, carnivals, sporting events; some cities go further, stage elaborate celebrations, make of them affairs of great social significance. Last week two such affairs were held in the chief cities of two great Western States...
Numerous are the means by which a bank gets customers. Proximity, a nice building, friendly vice presidents are customary lures; another lure is an easy loan policy. Few prospective depositors spend as much time looking at a bank's balance sheets as they do investigating a company whose bonds they want to buy. One reason is that the average person can tell nothing from the average bank balance sheet. Another is that a person capable of telling at a glance what a bank's general position is usually realizes that only the people within a bank can tell...
...after arranging with the U. S. State Department for her entrance as a permanent resident. But so highly do the Soviet authorities regard Professor Krynine's services, it was said last week, that despite all he could do, they refused his wife egress from the Union, hoping to lure him home...
...unusual stress and trial. You have each your special cause of anxiety. So, too, have I. The whole nation is beset with the difficulties incident to a world-wide depression. . . . Many have lost the savings of a lifetime, many are unemployed. . . . This is passing trial. . . . Never was the lure of the rosy path to every panacea or of easy ways to imagined security more tempting. For the energies of private initiative we are offered an alluring substitute in the specious claim that hired representatives of 100,000,000 people can do better than the people themselves in thinking and planning...
...author, the Irish writer, give his reflection on the adventure: "It was a mad trip to have undertaken, a solemn request for death: but we did not recognize our folly till we were faced with the unknown, and then the lure of the skyline seized us almost against our wills...