Word: toward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bridge is Boston's first step toward the solution of the city's two foremost civic problems--the unsnarling of traffic and the improvement of port facilities. The old artery from Charlestown to Chelsea had two drawbridges on route, one of which was opened 7000 times last year for an average of ten minutes each time. That drawbridge was in such poor condition that the War Department had come very near requesting the two cities involved to build a new one at their own expense. And even with such time hazards, 11 million vehicles passed over that road last year...
...principally to this trust Mather credits the widespread loyalty that he says the Yugoslavs bear toward their boss. Mather said the people really believe Tito is trying to improve their welfare, and thus, he said, "slogans like 'We are Tito's, and Tito is Ours' really ring true...
...leisurely paced show, with deft touches of understated humor and sensitivity. Evans plays an austere and reserved master of the Classics in an English public school--"the Himmel of the Lower Fifth," as he is characterized by the headmaster. The play concerns the gradual eliciting of his emotions toward himself, his work and his promiscuous wife. A humorless man, he had been unable, throughout his career, to maintain the delicate balance between discipline and affability--taking refuge in a severity which was lightened only by dry puns. The climax occurs when a member of his alienated Greek class presents...
...accept, for a time being, a system of kinetc equations embracing the data of photosynthesis as picturing the known essence of the mechanism of this process. He also wants to learn the molecular inwardness of the matter, the kinetic mechanism with all its defects serving as a ladder toward specific experimental inquiry. He is not so crude as to look for a nexus of springs pulling dashpots through baths of hydraulic oil when he peers at muscle fibers in electron microscope pictures, though this kind of model has had brilliant uses for some purposes. On the other hand he knows...
...editorial position. Certainly this is a valid move. A college literary magazine with a tradition as old as the Advocate's should take interest and express opinions in college affairs. Last year's article on "The Jew at Harvard," and later the discussion of the club system, were directed toward this end. By editorializing on some of the controversial problems of college life, the Advocate gives impetus to its descent from the yellow pedestal of pure letters...