Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Displaying remarkable mushroom growth to residents of Cambridge since its founder laid the cornerstone four months ago, the white granite Littauer Center of Public Administration, first building in the University to feature granite and brick construction, has passed the two-thirds mark toward completion...
Since the report shows the shift of student enrollment from the older "standard" fields of the Humanities toward the Social Sciences and the absence of a proportional shift of funds from one Department to another, it may prove a salutary "eye-opener". The Council hopes that many new students in the College will express an interest in the College will express an interest in the reports which may influence the course of their education at Harvard; copies of Council reports may be consulted in Phillips Brooks House...
...strict orders that the President is not to be guarded. They know he means it, and they try to keep their troops always just beyond the next hill. A tent is good enough to shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda of a rich Mexican is sighted toward dusk the Cárdenas party of from ten to 50 horsemen may drop in on the local bigwig whom it is the business of the Six-Year Plan to turn into a smallwig owning not over 381 acres-the theoretical top to which all crop-producing private land holdings...
...will naturally skin any gringos he can and who devotes his life to bettering, by fair means or foul, the lot of his own people, the Indians. Recently he boasted: "The great masses of the Mexican people are eating better than ever before. . . . The tendency in Mexico is toward general betterment. . . . President Roosevelt has labored to better the conditions of the farmers and industrial workers. We are trying to do the same...
WITH MALICE TOWARD SOME-Margaret Halsey-Simon & Schuster...