Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Czechoslovakia!'' At pro-Czech mass meetings this feeling welled up. Pacifists like Thomas Mann and "realists" like Columnist Dorothy Thompson were that very day whipping it up. Episcopal Bishop Manning of New York was saying: "All men of sense know that there is a point beyond which injustice and aggression cannot be permitted to go, and that as a last resort in certain situations, the use of force may not only be justified but may be required of us by every principle of right, of duty, and of true man-hood...
...toward naked Montauk Point, the 190-ft. Mackay Radio tower at Napeague was flung to earth. Fishing craft were splintered, fishermen's shacks blown to flinders. Refugees huddled marooned in the brick-walled Montauk Manor on high ground. On Long Island's northerly finger the hurricane from the south made shambles of the shipyards of Greenport, unroofed a full movie theatre...
...Watch Hill, Westerly and Charlestown, R. I. loss of life was heavy. Scores of people who took refuge in the highest dunes were swept away by mountainous seas which carved a new coastline. Well Rock lighthouse at Point Judith was hammered down. So was Prudence Island lighthouse, killing the tender's wife and son. Charlestown was wiped out. Seven school children were drowned in a bus on Jamestown Island...
...present reorganization points toward the abolition of many of these faults and failings. The most obvious step is the syllabus, which, a la History 1, contains a full outline of the year's work. With a complete picture painted in advance, the course need no longer blunder and stumble from one point to the next, and students, as well as section men, can comprehend the purpose and place of each component part as they could not in the past. Another syllabus-baby, pretty enough to be carefully nurtured in Government 1 and adopted elsewhere, is the reprinting of excerpts from...
Present indications point to an even lower contribution this year with one third of the student body making no donation whatever. Poverty is not to blame for this apathy, for there is scarcely a single undergraduate who cannot afford at least a dollar. And even students who hold themselves aloof from college obligations should remember that they have a duty as citizens and that the Council's appeal is the only plea they will receive from the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and other allied charities rendering such yeoman service in these troubled times...