Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Filipinos of today are soft and easygoing. Our tendency toward parasitism is not inclined to sustained strenuous effort. Face-saving is our dominant note in the confused symphony of our existence. Our sense of righteousness often is dulled by a desire for personal gain. We lack the superb courage which impels action because it is right. Our greatest fear is not to do wrong, but to be caught doing wrong. Our conception of virtue is conventional. We take religion lightly and we think lip-service equivalent to a deep, abiding faith. Patriotism among us is only skin deep and incapable...
...huge bankroll. The Hines money is supposed to come from insurance and contracting business run by Sons James Jr. and Philip (Harvard). Tom Dewey last week set out to prove that a great deal of it came from a regular levy on Harlem's numbers bankers. Leaning toward the jury box and talking in his customary confidential tones, Prosecutor Dewey explained to a blue ribbon jury,* consisting of one Democrat, four Republicans, two Independents, five gentlemen who had not bothered to register, the basic facts of the numbers game. In this simple lottery a player can pick any number...
Meanwhile, able-bodied men are being constantly trained for the guerrilla armies, whose morale is high, and every Chinese has learned to sing war songs. As for Japan's Chinese hirelings in "puppet" government jobs, Captain Carlson declared: "Chinese guerrillas are very charitable in their views toward the Chinese puppets, declaring that most of them are loyal Chinese at heart. They claim to be in constant communication with many of these Japanese hirelings...
Eleven years ago, Rev. Paul Schulte, a strapping, blond German priest of the Roman Catholic order of Oblates of Mary Immaculate, founded the Missionary Communications Association, to keep missionary outposts of the Church in touch with the world. Its motto : Obviam Christo terra marique et in aera ("Toward Christ by land and sea and in the air"). Lately, Father Schulte, a crack pilot who wears his Roman collar under his flying togs, has been in northern Canada planning an aerial transport service for missionaries in the Arctic. In Churchill, Manitoba last week he learned that Bishop Armand Clabaut had received...
Once a year, in mid-August, the sleepy little village of Goshen, N. Y. becomes for a day the capital of the harness-racing world. There, along elm-shaded streets that were meant for its population of 4,000, 40,000 trotting-race enthusiasts, in carnival spirit, meander toward Good Time Track and the running of the Hambletonian, world's richest race for trotting horses...