Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reviewing the College's achievements in 1958, Jordan claimed that Radcliffe has made "steady and substantial progress" toward some of its main goals. He cited the opening of Comstock Hall as a step forward in student housing, noting that 91 per cent of the enrollment is presently housed on campus, as contrasted with 60 per cent as recently...
...poked 8 goals by the inept grad goalie, Jamie Hufton. The only dispute in the game came in the second period, after a particularly vicious check from one of the Business School defensemen, when one of the PBH lads produced a switch-knife, and made threatening gestures toward his opponent. Referee Richie Rubenstein quickly calmed the situation and the game was played without further incident...
...guesses that the poorhouse fair will erupt in an ugly show of violence toward Conner. Symbolically, it is the mock crucifixion of a false Christ. Hungering for the bread of understanding, the old people had been fed the cold tin plates of social progress. Updike unfolds his parable with stylistic elegance. But, too polite to talk about the sin of pride, he gradually throws away his book's sense of purpose...
...figure (thereafter, she hides it in the attic) to a seven-page description of a country-club dinner that is as savagely tedious as anything in Babbitt. There are sharply accurate glimpses of a far-from-adult grownup trying to cope with adolescents, of a dark, feminine hatred toward the machine. There is, above all, the nameless fear that somehow life itself is a mysterious machine that is not running as well as it should...
...strike in Minneapolis, without reflecting on the monstrous extremes of power which the downtrodden of yesterday have reached. A future historian, not so solid as Schlesinger on the do-gooding glamour of it all. may yet weigh the memorable reforms accomplished by the New Deal against its ominous drive toward the welfare state...