Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emily Post writes (TIME, Aug. 19) regarding Russel Wright cups-"A thick edge-especially one curving inward-defies every effort of human lips to hold back the gush of liquid which dribbles down the sides...
...pawnshop bonds. Soon some 50 Parisians were killed rioting against "the swindlers and assassins in the Chamber of Deputies." Half a dozen bureaucrats fled, or, like Stavisky, were "found dead." Two French Cabinets crashed. Whatever else he may have done, Stavisky revealed France's inward rottenness to the watchful eye of Hitler...
...reply to Mr. Wright, I would like to suggest that he himself test the "practicability" of the 18th Century cup whose fine and slightly flaring rim was skillfully designed to check the escape of any drop of liquid down its side. A thick edge-especially one curving "inward-defies every effort of human lips to hold back the gush of liquid which dribbles down the sides and even makes a ring in the saucer...
...years into a vast architectural pudding, spiced with neat tid-bits such as Boylston and Weld. As the needs grew, the landscaping diminished, the charm receded to three small areas, one of which is to be used for Lamont's edifice. In fifty years of this type of inward expansion, Harvard can expect to resemble any big-city college that has gone over to the drab business of manufacturing college graduates...
...poll was a climax of an amazing experiment. To date, MacArthur's methods had been dazzlingly successful in demilitarizing Japan and in establishing the outward forms of democracy. If the Japanese still lack the inward democratic light, that could be blamed on centuries of Japanese history rather than on MacArthur's occupation policies. Only those Japanese institutions and attitudes which were impermeable to Western thought were left untouched...