Word: outward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pursuit was impossible. The Governor General's secretary sternly ordered Annobon's blacks to capture their white Sergeant but they failed to do so last week. In Madrid native Delegates of Guinea rushed wailing to Spanish officials. "Alas for our beloved Don Gustavo!" they cried with every outward sign of grief. "He was the best Governor we ever...
...factory chimneys began to smoke again. After many a false alarm business seemed in the act of struggling back to its feet. But there was abroad in the land a spirit of unrest such as the country had not known since the War. Then the spirit had been directed outward, against a foreign enemy. Now it was an internal trouble, the country contemplating itself...
...study politics in principle and acquire a basis for a rational political philosophy. If a man goes out from college into politics the pressure of circumstance and of immediate problems may prevent his ever attaining to an understanding of the essentials of which everyday politics are the outward expression. If he has studied political ideas at college, although their abstract perfection may be lost in actual life, yet he has the critical background necessary for effective action. Even if college men do not go into politics their training in political theory will make them intelligent citizens capable of exerting...
Pictures based on pseudo-philosophical ideas need to be developed with proper kind of dramatic emphasis to be as effective as, for instance, Outward Bound. This one is not. It moves too slowly and its ingenious story idea does not conceal the fact that its authors were so dazzled by their plot that they failed to investigate its possibilities. Warner Baxter performs with the dignity proper to a patriot aware that he is dead. Ablest things in the picture are probably the work of its director, William Dieterle, and the shot of a crowd which has heard about the Captain...
...speaking peoples, from the days of Chaucer to our own, know that there has always been a large amount of definite irreligious even under an established church. There are at all times large groups of people who apparently have no need for religion, and even though they accept its outward forms, never have even a remote conception of its significance. The establishment of democracy, which meant the destruction of the "divine right" idea, at once removed the strongest aid of religion and destroyed the most palpable symbol of traditional Christianity. With the rise of industrialism the number of people...