Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SHANGHAI--Japans motorized legions, gathering momentum as they advanced, rolled westward over the bloody battlefields of Honan Province today on the road toward Hankow, the temporary Chinese capital. Japanese reports said that the city of Lanfeng, known as "the gateway to the west," had been occupied after four days of fighting that was described as "bloodier than the battle of Suchow...
Despite this trust, however, which stood out in strong contrast to the A. F. of L.'s antagonism toward employers, scarcely any of the workers chose not to be represented by a union. It is no longer fashionable to be at the mercy of even a benevolent employer. The University should be glad that its employee relations are once more in tune with the times; and undergraduates, the indirect employers, will have to learn at first hand that important economic lesson that efficiency, high standards, and contented employees cost money--and are worth...
...tactical purposes, GHQ A. F. last week assumed that its available planes represented 699 ships. By next year it expects to be well toward this total, by 1940 or 1941 to have 1,200. Congress this year has tentatively approved a 1938-39 Air Corps appropriation of $70,556,972, has authorized expenditure of $25,250,000 for new aircraft. Thus by 1941 the force should have 2,149 planes, with the assurance of the $34,000,000 required to replace 340 annually outmoded planes, 130-odd washed out by crashes each year. Last week 13 militantly liberal House Military...
...There are two schools of mentality in physics, the pragmatists who move toward reality by wholesome experiment, and the dogmatists who use unwholesome imagination. "For the pragmatic spirit physical research is a process of evolution from what has been established to new experimental knowledge; for him there is no such thing as classical physics or modern physics, but only physics. . . . The physicist of the dogmatic school operates in quite a different manner. . . . He starts out from ideas that have arisen primarily in his own brain, or from arbitrary definitions of relationships between symbols. ... In so far as [his formulae...
Much as they love and respect other Christians, Baptists love more the saving grace of baptism, the freedom of worship without the ministrations of a priesthood. Baptists may well be the most sizable group of Christians who will not march toward world church unity with the World Council of Churches (see col. 2). Last week in Richmond. Va., 5,000 "messengers" (delegates) to the Southern Baptist Convention representing 5,000,000 Baptists in 18 States, applauded two frank statements of the Baptist position on unity. A committee thumbed down "any federation, council or what not that would hinder...