Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Someone in the gallery began to clap first; as the music faded, the applause gathered and grew quicker; then voices cheered, diplomats and dowagers crowded toward the stage on which a girl was nodding and laughing and stooping to pick up flowers. The enthusiasm that greets an opera singer's debut is sometimes the lightest, the most sudden, the most exciting that any artist can ever achieve. Dorothy Speare, last week in Washington, was enjoying a moment that she must always remember for its exquisite gaiety, thrown to her like a bouquet...
...Schwab's speech was significant because it phrased authoritatively the attitude of scientific industrial managers toward their employes. Said he: "What are these reasonable wants of employes, which they have a right to see satisfied as far as conditions of industry permit? I believe they include the payment of fair wages for efficient services; steady, uninterrupted employment; safeguarding of their lives and health; good physical working conditions; provision for them to lay up savings and to become partners in the business through stock ownership; and finally, some guarantee of financial independence...
WHATEVER WE DO ? Allan Upde-graff?John Day ($2.50). Cloppety-Clop. The little French train rushed through the pines toward Valloire, modest neighbor of Cannes, bearing Peleus Chalfont, young U. S. expatriate in search of health. Cloppety-Clop. The same little train bore the pretty Bobbie Parsons and her too ancient husband George, un- pleasantly far from his native Missouri. The toot of a motor horn. Came drunken old Henry-oh with ribalt Mimi, the Duchess. World-weary pilgrims, they journeyed back through the hills to the Temple of Hercules, there to utter loose prayers. Someone answered...
...speakers on Wednesday night argued the subject: "Resolved, That the Mexican Government was justified in its action toward the Catholic Church" V. M. Harding '31 and S. S. Morrill '31 on the affirmative side of the question, won a decision over H. C. Friend '31 and J. M. Gilmartin '31, who upheld the negative. After the debate an open discussion was held...
...adjoining column will be found a communication which should be of interest to all such as are worried--if not downright hysterical--about the approaching Reading Period. Coming unsolicited from the head of the College Library, these hints on the use of Widener should, if followed, do their share toward making the first Reading Period a less perilous venture...