Word: lure
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lure U.S. capital and industrialists to the island, the Puerto Rican government grants tax exemption to many new industries until...
...beaten road there is tolerable travelling; but it is sore work, and many have to perish, fashioning a path through the impassable." Those for whom the lure of the Big City grows insuperable as the weekend approaches have taken refuge for many years in these words of Carlyle as they sought their way through the tortuous sidestreets of New Haven...
...along on new things." He thought a band made up just about like the one that had first won him fame & fortune ten years ago (eight brasses, five saxophones and a rhythm section), playing old Shaw specials like Begin the Beguine, Frenesi and Dancing in the Dark, might lure his strayed followers back into the tent. Once they were in, perhaps he could give them Prokofiev, Ravel, Berezowsky et al. in small doses...
Fleur's Flair, which will be shown this week in a limited edition to 5,000 potential advertisers and subscribers, looks like a fancy bouillabaisse of Vogue, Town & Country, Holiday, etc. By covering "fashion, art, literature, travel, decor, theater and entertainment," Editor Cowles expects to lure enough readers to guarantee advertisers a circulation of 200,000 (at 50? a copy) at the start...
...scramble for sales, there were some tricky new products last week to help lure out consumers' dollars...