Word: lures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Does the Administration hope to lure these men of social grace by the continued presence of Radcliffe women in class? Co-education, started as a wartime measure necessitated by teacher shortages, and cloaked under the title of "joint instruction", seems to be here to stay. Thus, for better or worse, the Administration discards a tradition of three centuries...
...game with a grand-slam homer. (The club owner told him he shouldn't have done that, because it would hurt the next day's attendance.) By such showmanship the brothers Pasquel hope to take Mexico's mind off bullfighting. They talk big of plans to lure 30 or 40 U.S. big-leaguers south next year, to increase their three-games-a-week schedule to what they regard as a back-breaking four. The brothers own all eight clubs, in whole or in part...
...ceiling prices for hogs would remain the same until Sept. 1 and the subsidy for "finishing" (fattening) cattle would stay in effect until June 30. Thus, it was still more profitable to feed corn to produce meat than to sell the grain. So whether these piddling price boosts would lure much more grain off the farms was doubtful. Some experts guessed that grain prices would have to be raised somewhere in the neighborhood of from 25? to 50? a bushel to bring the grain...
...Nicholas Church be moved - but rather: shall religion retreat!" Dr. Sizoo called his parishioners to a "day of prayer for intercession," took to the air to denounce "the rising tides of secularism." He charged that part of the consistory (33 ministers, deacons and elders) had succumbed to "the lure of material things." "I am reminded," he added, "of what a distinguished Boston judge said when a group tried to sell historic Old South Church in Boston. He hoped the time would never come when God could not afford to own a corner lot in the city of Boston." Last week...
From the eminently respectable Portland Oregonian, the Post stole solid, affable, eminently respectable Publisher Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, who at 48 is still the white-haired boy of Western journalism. The lure: around $52,000 a year. Though friends of both asked what they saw in each other, Ep Hoyt and the Post were sure it was a fine match...