Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play of growth. Thomas does not suddenly seize on the power which he takes to his death. He had it, Eliot explains, over since he resigned the Chancellorship to devote his whole being to the Church. In the first act, when he dismisses the temptors who came to lure him from his purpose, Gaydos was too much the prig. He tends also to overuse facial gestures. But in the death scene, when faced by four drunken assassins, he brings a great, cold dignity to the role...
...College Boards pass the Monro proposal, the scholarship will return to its prime purpose. Designed to fill the gap between the student's available funds and his expenses, the stipend will no longer be used as lure, often forcing a man to make a decision based on financial preference alone. And the colleges, in awarding more scholarship to more students will benefit by using what has now become wasted money. Monro's clearing house will stop the scrambling and ensure that the successful applicant will always get enough, but never more than enough...
...only a dollar or so, v. the $2 to $4 it now costs (often plus baby sitter). Said Sam Goldwyn: "Paid television must come'." Movie theater owners naturally disagree, along with 20th Century-Fox's Spyros Skouras, who thinks that CinemaScope and other new projection systems can lure the public back to the movie box office...
Like several other Southern states seeking to lure Northern industry, Tennessee in 1951 passed a law allowing local communities to issue revenue bonds to finance industrial expansion. Last week the law was used in a way Tennesseans never expected. Citizens of Sevierville (pop. 1,700) voted unanimously (544 to o) to issue $2,000,000 in bonds to build a new plant for the Cherokee Textile Mills-which is moving, not from the North, but from Knoxville, just 24 miles away...
...consuming interest in sex has so penetrated our national culture that it has been estimated we encounter some kind of sexual lure every nine minutes of our waking day," Sociologist Sorokin wrote in This Week Magazine. "Greece, in the third and second centuries B.C., 'brought sex out into the open in a manner that has yet to be equalled. We know, because there were Kinseys in those days, too, men who prided themselves on their objectivity as they calmly recorded the distressing picture of whole families getting together to indulge in promiscuous behavior. Adultery, prostitution, homosexuality and even incest...