Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, the birthday frosting covered some doughy problems which hardly warranted such good spirits. The President would soon have to face the ticklish problem of vetoing or not vetoing the labor bill with which Congress is now in labor. Just over the horizon John Lewis was laying for him: on June 30 the Government's coal contract expires. Foreign relations were getting no simpler. But Harry Truman put off all such serious matters but one-a request to Congress for $25,000,000 to pay for a loyalty checkup of Government employees...
Jisho Yamazaki could go on proclaiming that Japan had won the war, that the Jap fleet still lurked below the horizon-as long as such talk presented no "clear and present danger" to Hawaii's peace of mind...
Pulse-beats have been increasing indirect ratio to the boosts in stroke-beats on the Charles lately as the Varsity crew's first regatta looms larger and larger on the weekend horizon. Anticipation is on a unique level because Saturday's race with Princeton and M.I.T. is the crew's only appearance before the home crowd this spring...
...another British scholarly dynasty by marrying the daughter of Professor Gilbert Murray, famous classical scholar and the Swinburnian translator of Euripides and other Greek dramatists. They had three sons, of whom the best known is Philip Toynbee, novelist (School in Private, The Barricades) and reviewer for British magazines like Horizon, Contact and others. Shortly after World War II, Toynbee and Rosalind Murray were divorced. Toynbee then married Veronica Boulter, for many years his secretary and researcher...
Because he admires the Partisan Review so much, Editor Connolly, who publishes London's highbrow Horizon, had 1,000 photo-offset copies of Review printed, and sold them at cost (35. 6d.). Said one Bloomsbury bookseller: "American intellectuals have so much vitality that it just forces itself out from inside them, while ours just seem to be writing off the top of their minds. Why, when people have discovered Partisan Review on the shelf, their eyes have lit up with pleasure, and as you know people's eyes don't light up any more, what with...