Word: lured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...openly recruited for the purpose of winning games. Way back in 1937 when the schedules for next fall and even for the fall of 1942 were made out, Gloomy Gil Dobie's policy was still in effect in Ithaca, and the Pennsylvanians had not yet been attracted by the lure of a winning team for their Bi-Centennial. Both schools ranked in the pure amateur class. However, it was a risky venture even then to map out a program for four and five years ahead. The H.A.A. officials have learned their lesson from this disastrous experience. From now on, they...
...decade before last, still flowed on. The great exodus was from Oklahoma and the other drought-area States in the Great Plains tier (see map). Fastest-growing State was Florida, where sunshine, bathing beauties, vistas of white sand and palm trees, pleasure domes and gambling dens continued to lure the wealthy, the retired and the relaxed. Second in the rate of population growth was New Mexico, where discouraged Okies, who could get no farther, had bogged down. Third fastest-growing State: California, another sun-worshipers' Mecca. Fastest-growing region: the South...
...much absorbed with the twist, which in this case is the glorification of an intelligent mistress who knows and fears that marriage will mean the end of real love. Johnson has an interesting story to tell, but again, it is a little too "surfacey," too hypnotized by the lure of depicting the "smart life...
Last week the 535 men & women who had qualified for the Ben Paris-Seattle Star final rowed out into Elliott Bay. Japanese are barred (because they are too skillful). So are outboard motors. Contestants are permitted to troll (drag lure through the water) or spin (cast from anchored boat). In each boat is an "observer" supplied by a rival fisherman to prevent petty cheating...
Last of the national groups, but not the least important in Willkie calculations, was the Democrats-for-Willkie National Committee-a pasture to which Willkie-ites hoped to lure Democrats who had kicked over old fences, were jogging around with no place to go and bellow...