Word: lures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This type of debate has been seized on by schools that either because of laziness, enervation, or inadequate faculty assistance, are not "in form" to meet their opponents. But this shrinking from a decision besides being a symptom of declining spirit, lessens the lure that debating would have for powerful active natures...
...ultraviolet light. If the bee's food receptacle is labeled with a card painted ultraviolet-white, the bee will soon learn to select that card among plain white cards which to the human eye seem indistinguishable from the one selected. No entomologist would use this visual faculty to lure to destruction the useful honey bee. But in Lafayette, Ind., scientists of Purdue University pondered ways of coping with the codling moth', a mottled, foreshortened little creature whose larvae develop in apples and do U. S. agriculture $13,000,000 worth of damage each & every year. Finding that...
...Detroit dynamic President Roy Chapin of Hudson Motor Car Co. had helped to raise $1,730,000. three-quarters of a million short of the goal but around $100,000 over last year's total. Another great salesman, Adman Albert D. Lasker, was using his skill to lure $3,000,000 out of Chicago pockets. With the same thunderous eloquence with which he nominated Herbert Hoover for President in 1932, beetle-browed Lawyer Joseph Scott whipped Los Angeles on toward a precise $3,094,805. Active patron of Philadelphia's campaign for $3,752,000 was onetime Senator...
...name of sport most certainly must stop. Besides what claim have the prep schools when mighty institutions like Harvard suffer through the lack of the ministrations of Miss Davis and her ilk. Perhaps, oh happy thought, perhaps honeyed words and the promise of a major H might lure her to New Haven next Saturday...
...series, "Gold Eagle Guy," the Theater Guild brings forth what is by far the most pretentious and elaborate of its productions to date. A first play by Melvin Levy, it is the story of a robustious young seaman who comes to California in 1862 and remains, fascinated by the lure of yellow gold, to build with unscrupulous hand a vast merchant fleet. If the result falls somewhat short of an epic, the cast and the settings are not to blame...