Word: hastener
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...includes, outside bad pictures like Beasts of Berlin and Confessions of a Nazi Spy, no one knows, but fact remains that few producers have been anxious to find out. Last week came two more feelers. In themselves two pictures do not make a cinema spring, but their reception might hasten...
...form a new government, and that in either case, the single party would be jammed into being as quickly as possible. But the manner in which the climax came boded no good. For if the single party fails to measure up to its expectations, the crisis was sure to hasten that extremity from which all sensible Japanese have cringed-putting the whole bloodstained mess squarely in the Army's hands. When that extremity comes, the chaos of the past three years may seem nothing compared to the New Disorder in East Asia...
...fight now going on directed against fascism? If so, is it not necessary to condemn fascism without equivocation to resist it effectively? Are not half-hearted measures fatal, as they are doomed to failure and hasten the extension to the rest of the world of the social and economic system which already exists in Germany, Italy, and Spain...
Very quiet and seldom widely advertised are the deep changes of popular mood and imagination by which literature grows. A great war may hasten such changes even when it obscures them from public view. Thus obscurely in the years from 1914 to 1918 James Joyce labored in Trieste and Zurich over Ulysses, Marcel Proust labored in Paris over Remembrance of Things Past-two mighty realizations of European life which the next generation of writers and readers tried to absorb...
...purely logical argument with little appeal to the emotions, he predicted the probable results of participation by the United States in the struggle, pointing out that Japan would be likely to enter and that the United States could hardly hasten...