Word: toward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future, the Soviets may make legitimate movements toward the settlement of international disputes. They may work honestly to effect a Truman-Stalin meeting without ballyhoo and propagandizing motives. This would be an excellent beginning to East-West agreements, and it must be earnestly followed up by Washington. But even this could not solve the world's troubles. There can be no side-sweeping Truman-Stalin "deals." Only a concert of Western powers can bargain with Russia. If Truman and Stalin tried to compromise their way to a more comfortable "peace," the patient work of the North Atlantic group of powers...
Freshmen entering Harvard next fall will be required to take one GE course during their first two years in College, while members of the Class of 1954 will be expected to take two GE courses in the same period. In both cases, courses in General Education will count toward the distribution requirements...
...That student entering in the Class of 1953 (those entering in the fall of 1949) shall take at least one elementary course in General Education, the course to be taken either in the freshman or in the sophomore year, and to count toward fulfilling the distribution requirements, which requirements shall remain in their present form...
...That students entering with the Class of 1954 (those entering in the fall of 1950) shall take at least two elementary courses in General Education during the freshman or sophomore year, such courses to count toward the distribution requirements...
...advice was easy to give, but harder to follow. U.S. railroads, which last year spent $279,400,000 on dieselization and this year will spend as much more, had already gone a long way toward improving efficiency. But the diesels were more efficient partly because they required less manpower-and the unions did not like that. This week, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers served strike warnings against 15 western roads to force them to "featherbed" an extra engineer on diesels...