Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words of the American Quaker, John Woolman, which he quotes, Dreiser at his best lived and wrote in faithfulness to "a principle placed. In the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names; it is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from any, when the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows, they become brethren...
...lean Spaniards that, just by looking at them, he could see they were "really short of nourishment." He blustered: "It is the fault of outside nations which deny us many things." Franco's solution: "If we can't progress looking outward, then we'll progress looking inward...
This blend of barbarism and benevolence had its inevitable effect on the Crown Prince. He grew into a meek, friendly youth, given to expressing any inward effervescence by racing along the streets of Teheran in fast cars. The better to equip him for his royal duties, the Shah gave the boy five years of European schooling. The Shah had learned to read & write Persian only after becoming Minister of War; the Crown Prince became proficient in French, English and European manners in one of the most expensive private schools in Switzerland. But Mohamed Reza was not allowed to finish...
Then the current in the coils begins to fall. A secondary magnetic field deflects the electrons from their circular course. They spiral inward and hit a tungsten "target." Out bursts...
...host of reserves, leaving the Navy, were returning to influential civilian life with a well-developed scunner against the "trade school," to which they sometimes also referred as the "prig factory." Gazing earnestly inward, the Academy asked itself: "What's wrong...