Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same report, the interim committee, appointed at the start of this term by the Cambridge branch of the Advocate trustees, proposed that the magazine move inward from its previous position on the literary fringes and attempt to grapple with various kinds of current problems. Watt said that there would still be room for two or three short stories in each issue, but that the accent would also fall on articles of national or international interest...
...Hannes Schneider's Arlberg technique of controlled skiing (by which skiers learn to put on the brakes) which did most to tell U.S. beginners how to ski. Its basis, as with all controlled skiing, is the fundamental snow-plow (knees bent, body tilted forward, ski tips pointed inward like an inverted V). In about five weeks, the average student can learn to ride downhill without wrapping himself around a tree...
Lawyer Joseph A. Padway, barrel-shaped and bull-voiced, had taken up the morning with his arguments for the defense. The presence of Padway, A.F.L.'s brightest legal light, gave John much inward satisfaction. The A.F.L. hierarchy might hate and fear Lewis for the way he had assaulted them in the past, but they had to come to his support on an issue like this. Padway was the big opening gun in the battery of defense...
Moral Collapse. The physical destruction, one soon discovers, constitutes only a secondary-almost a minor-problem. After all, there are bulldozers and concrete mixers and prefabricated building methods. . . . But what will repair the inward damage, the spiritual destruction? . . . Nothing. Something has happened to Europe's ideas of honor, of morality, of faith, hope and charity which goes so deep that no restorative power now in evidence will measure up to the task of restoration...
keep the glider in the earth's orbit, so the great pull of the sun would make it spiral inward toward the orbit of Venus...