Word: lured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greater efforts and has on the whole produced less results." But scientists may find that at a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero, certain sub stances become permanent magnets ; they may find nothing. They do not know for sure what they will find, and that is the lure. If England survives they will keep going...
...Streets of Paris, at the Fair, is half the size it was on Broadway, and on the whole a livelier show. Unhappily missing are Dazed Comedian Bobby Clark, "Think a Drink" Hoffman with his magic bar tending, and Carmen Miranda with her tropical lure. But missing also are half a dozen numbers that slowed up the show, while Abbott & Costello are crazier and better than ever. New to the show is Gypsy Rose Lee, with her famous absent-minded striptease. If it doesn't make up for Miranda, it keeps anyone in the audience-temporarily at least-from thinking...
...Carnegie Corporation-which enable the orchestra to hear how the world's big orchestras perform the works in its library. At weekly rehearsals the Crawfordsville musicians often play out of tune, get lost, wheeze and whiffle, come in at the wrong places, and competing basketball games lure away many a player. But as concert nights approach, attendance and teamwork improve, and when the professionals appear the orchestra really goes to town...
...this is not to say that here no interest in the great outdoors glimmers through the clear Cambridge air. No wallflowers for undergraduate attentions are the Youth Hostels; church groups and clubs lure students with promises of hikes. Mountaineers and skiers, although addicted to sports requiring more than the usual skill and agility, have sold themselves with great success. Clearly potentialities are great...
...Hollywood did. More than one Hollywood cinemagnate has been haunted over the years by visions of a sure-fire billing: Sergeant Alvin C. York in The Life of Sergeant York. More than one has made fat offers in an effort to lure the hero, who is far from well off, to Hollywood. York always smiled politely, drawled his thanks, said he guessed he wouldn't. Until last fortnight...