Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commonwealth of Nations* is one of the largest associations known to history -and one of the most difficult for the rest of the world to understand. It binds together 580 million people in all parts of the world in common trade, common defense, and-up to a point-a common outlook on life. The Commonwealth nations are not joined by formal treaties. They are free to leave any time. The forces which hold them together are as subtle, delicate and elusive to the prying outsider as the forces which bind the atom. The one formal, legal Commonwealth bond: the British...
...year ago Serge Koussevitzky said that he would retire "at the highest point in my career." That, he explained, would be when he had rounded out a quarter-century on Boston's podium. Last week, the milestone passed, his fans gave him a proper Boston goodbye...
This comico-tragic instant brings to bear, like the point of a knife, the dilemma of 19th Century Jean Barois and the meaning of his story. It is the fulcrum of the cold, sharp "novel of ideas" which won Novelist Roger Martin du Gard his first critical respect when it was published in France in 1913. Martin du Gard went on to win a Nobel Prize (1937) for his masterwork, The Thibaults, a magnificent cycle of novels about French bourgeois life in the first two decades of the 20th Century...
Freshman golfers went to Andover Saturday and won an easy 6 1/2 to 2 1/2 victory. Harvard's Mitch Rosenholtz was low man with a 68--one point lower than the varsity's best score this year...
...injunctions rules. In the Senate, there is some hope of compromise between the Administration bill and a minority proposal drawn up this week by Senator Taft. In both Houses, though, labor forces will have to contend with stubborn opposition from Republicans and Southerners--opposition which is itself past the point of compromise...