Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retiring Charles Seymour, see nothing wrong in the Government's subsidizing medical schools ("But I draw the line there"). Others, like Kenyon's President Gordon Chalmers, see little danger in direct scholarship aid to students. Still others, like President Charles F. Phillips of Bates College, see the "lure of federal aid" to private colleges in any form as "an enemy that looks like a friend...
Other shouts drowned out Randolph when he said, "Back the professor comes after 17 years, with his rotten advice, trying to lure yet another generation along the wrong path." Union President Robin Day rang the bell for silence, but Randolph soon brought another uproar by saying, "It may be just a joke for the professor, this third-class Socrates,* [but he] is corrupting, infecting and polluting the good relations between Britain...
...Lindseth took the bold course. He foresaw a boom which would need an ever-expanding supply of power, and backed his bet with a $90 million expansion program for his own company. Then Lindseth went out after business. By offering advice on factory sites, suppliers and markets, he helped lure 536 new plants (including $50 million in chemical plants alone) to the five-county area that C.E.I.'s national ads call "the best location in the nation." To supply the power...
...Great Diamond." As The Encounter begins, Father Cawder is glumly refusing a gift of pew cushions from a wealthy widow in his Maryland parish. The incident reveals the man: he suspects comfort as the devil's lure, believes the essence of faith is self-denial. Yet, while Father Cawder lives by his ascetic creed, he tortures himself with the suspicion that his attitude is rooted in vanity...
...story properties, forbidding their stars to appear in the new medium and buying up the most promising talent on TV. Cagily, they have begun to use TV to plug their pictures. The cinemoguls insist that the gregarious instinct will keep people herding together in theaters, regardless of the lure in the living room. They also point out that the cinema can offer Technicolor and airconditioning, and they are pushing work on another come-on: three-dimensional movies...