Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should like to point out a few facts in connection with the movement recently rejuvenated by the Junior class, toward installing electric lights in Hollis, Holworthy, North Matthews, Stoughton, and Thayer. It is a thing which many former classes have tried to accomplish, and one that will inevitably come. Great stress has been laid lately on the idea of making the Senior dormitories more attractive; here is certainly an opportunity to do so. It would be a gift which would last as long as the buildings themselves, as a memorial to the present generation in college...
...Saturday's Crimson, Quinby Taylor '41, drew a close comparison between Granville Hicks and Al Capone. In so doing, he revealed clearly the attitude toward Communism of a group well represented throughout the country. To this group, the difference between a Red and a hardened criminal is negligible; all Communists are evil in intent, warped in intellect--shadowy monsters to be hated and feared. Such a deplorable recrudescence of superstition in our supposedly enlightened America is nursed by many things--home environment, the natural hostility of those in economic security toward any possible disruptive force--but primarily, as with every...
TIME, March 28: "But before in the U. S., world developments over the last year have produced a profound and insufficiently publicized change in attitude toward war in general. Last week the change of attitude was perhaps better indicated by several reactions to the Hull speech than by the speech itself. Wrote Pundit Walter Lippmann...
...noticeable tendency toward materialistic, slightly "off-color" writing by the female dramatists of the present day is gradually sickening the public and turning them against this type of play, Carroll stated. This form of writing, he asserted, is not true art but photographic realism...
...comes a let-down. Perhaps it is slight; perhaps the effect is scarcely noticeable; but there is an effect. Taking caffein pills without doctor's orders might well lead to insomnia and general irritability. This certainly is no way to finish an evamination, nor is it the easy path toward resumption of studies. On the contrary, the ensuing let-down may prove scholastically lethal...