Word: luring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really spectacular scenery of the other islands: the painted-desert colors of Kauai's Waimea canyon; the vast, gaping Crater of the Sun atop Haleakala on Maui; the hissing craters and the black sand beach on Hawaii, "the big island." Overall, the islands have the raw material to lure the tourist dollar, but Hawaii's capitalists-old & new-will have to build more hotels before they can handle enough tourists to close the gap between imports and exports...
...Lights, action, camera" will ring out at Adams House this weekend as the newly formed Gold Coast Films group begins production of "Invitation to the Gold Coast." The movie, which will be used to lure freshmen into the House, will satirize to some extent the March of Time's "Invitation to Harvard...
...point is that so long as bowl games and post-season tournaments offer the lure of money and glory for winning teams, and so long as football and other sports are organized on a year-round basis, an "enforcible" code of admissions or scholarships will be virtually impossible to achieve. The evils in football are not surface stains caused by a few evil practitioners, as Mr. Jordan implies. They result from the bigness of the sport, and so long as the sport is big name, big news, and big money, the evils will be with...
...time riding the Southern's 7,571 miles of rails in 13 states. Only once was he temporarily sidetracked; his private cars were in a train wreck near Atlanta, in which Norris suffered a fractured skull and broken leg. He hustled business personally among big & little shippers, helped lure scores of new industries to set up shop along the line. Norris' humanizing efforts took another form. Whenever he breezed into one of the Southern's branch offices, he gave women employees a fatherly kiss. Said Norris: "Who ever saw a railroad president before I started traveling around...
...thing was such a bright idea, it comes off such a brilliant stunt, it boasts in the Oliviers so much added aura, that the superlatives can't help spilling over into what should be more temperate zones. The productions have their admirable virtues; the stars have their expected lure. But this is no such event as was Olivier's Oedipus Rex on his last visit to Broadway. And far from blotting out a recent Caesar on Broadway (with Cedric Hardwicke and Lilli Palmer) or a recent Antony (with Godfrey Tearle and Katharine Cornell), the present productions will...