Word: outward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon the new Ruler of an area larger than France and Italy together and lying just north of China proper, voiced a program for the future with virile firmness: "I want our people to concentrate on the development of Manchuria and look to ourselves, not outward, for development. There is no need of our seeking to expand now or encroach on other parts of China...
...want to point out is that many of the important decisions in life are by no means evidently momentous at the time. The right and wrong of the choice may be clear, but not the seriousness of the consequences involved; because they affect not so much the outward career of the actor as his own personal character, and the result may not be manifest for a long time...
Additional evidence that the glittering key, outward and visible sign of learning and erudition, is still at least as highly desired as those inestimable but nebulous aids to the bond house such as "contacts" and "activities," is revealed in the proposal to increase membership in the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa from 45 to 65 from a class...
...Dramatic Club of West Virginia University, proud possessor of a Cumnock Cup (1927), early this school year leased a local theater; called it The University Playhouse; presented four major plays, The Pelican, The Family Upstairs, Outward Bound, In Love with Love; attained the distinction of being the only organization of its kind possessing, by deed or lease, a playhouse; presenting therein major plays; receiving only advice from its collegiate connection; making expenses...
...counseled His Holiness to flay Fascismo?" For answer observers looked well upon Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, famed Papal Secretary of State. At him a jumpy Protestant might well point a finger and cry, "Papist!" He is of heavy, compact, menacing build, and his great eyebrows have that peculiar upward and outward tilt with which most sculptors have endowed the Prince of Darkness...