Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco was reported to have withdrawn German pilots from bases near the French border as a "gesture of neutrality" toward France. From, internationally-governed Tangier, Morocco, came reports of anti-Rightist rioting in adjoining Spanish Morocco, resulting in 35 killed, 400 arrested. Meanwhile, the British freighters Bobie and Standlake were badly damaged-they were said to be the 64th and 65th to be bombed -and four British seamen killed by a Rightist air raid on Barcelona's water front. Other casualties: 31 dead, 112 wounded...
...extension work is supported largely by the Lowell Institute. Tuition charges are $2.50 or $5.00 per course. Courses carry credit it toward the degree of Adjunct in Arts at Harvard. sion Commission include Harvard, Tufts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College, Boston University, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Wellesley, Simmons, Lowell Institute, Massachusetts Board of Education, and the Boston School Committee...
...year before last he devoted to the production of a work containing the best known text of all Shakespeare's plays. In recent months he has travelled about the country, speaking in several colleges. Frequently he may be glimpsed striding across the Yard, straight and immaculate, heading toward the steps of Widener...
...many words have been written about the indifference which supposedly breathes in Harvard's "brilliant but cold" Georgian buildings, in the social life of its myriad inhabitants, and in the attitude of the University as a whole toward life and liberalism, that upperclassmen and graduates can only growl feebly when they read them. Like communism the word indifference has a kind of African mystery to it, as thought if analyzed, it might explode in one's face and release snakes and tigers. Really it is the tool of description for those who do not understand a social condition easily explained...
...percent, the storm broke furiously at about 6 o'clock Wednesday evening, and lasted until 10 o'clock. During that time nothing was spared. Blasts of wind carried branches through the air. Football practice was abandoned when a ten foot strip of board fence came hurtling through the air toward C and D teams and the wooden grandstands retreated nine feet. A chimney fell off Harvard Hall and started the automatic sprinkler which in turn set off the fire alarm and drew three fire engines. Another chimney plunged through the roof of the School of Education. Slate from Wigglesworth Hall...