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Word: lures (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tell the city about its museum. Then he started buying the kind of master pieces the public would like-a 6-ft. Egyptian bas-relief, a 4th century B.C. Greek statue of an old man, a wooden head from China, a beautiful Cezanne. And then he set out to lure the public in to see them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Custodian of the Attic | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...first two acts-as 14-year-old Mary Tilford exerts her fearful wiles over schoolmates and grandmother and spreads her poison-The Children's Hour has the lure of mounting melodrama. It is with the last act that something at once harsher and more humane begins to blow through the story, and with the very last scene-when the surviving schoolmistress faces an enlightened, remorseful old lady-that the play takes on, emotionally and morally, a sense of the tragic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Old Play in Manhattan, Dec. 29, 1952 | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...wage a two-front war against 1) the Mirror, in the tabloid field, 2) the respected, full-size Daily Telegraph (circ. 991,092), which is owned by Lord Camrose, Kemsley's brother (TIME, Aug. 4). To wage his war, Rothermere can tone down his Daily Mail to lure readers from the Telegraph, jazz up the Graphic to fight the Mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bigger Press Lord | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Although the University's medical school does not have sufficient money to lure professors enough to teach and initiate experiments in pure science, it has not done all it can to encourage students studying both in the Brookline and Cambridge graduate schools of science to consider academic careers in medicine. This year, the Medical School began a new integrating course in biochemistry for graduate students who are interested in medical teaching, but this isn't adequate. Since basic science teachers in medical schools must have an overall picture of what is needed in a doctor's training, this course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deficits | 12/9/1952 | See Source »

...Lawrence, Mass., with 12,000 unemployed because of textile shutdowns, has raised $150,000 to lure new industries; one property where 1,200 were once employed in textiles is now manned by 4,000 in chemicals, electronics and other industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Yankee Renaissance | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

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