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Word: towards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toward the end the piece settles into a quiet and completely anomalous mass of discordant voices which gradually work up the scale and resolve into peaceful harmonious chords on the final words of the psalm, "bonheur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 4/13/1938 | See Source »

...considerable work at Mr. Smart's request toward a magazine he had originally conceived. But I must decline any responsibility, either as an editor or contributor, for whatever Ken turns out to be. This is not a criticism of the magazine. I haven't seen it. I haven't the slightest idea what it is going to be like. . . . This is merely a declination of an honor I do not deserve, if it should turn out that the first issue of Ken is a great success, which I hope it will be. But I had no hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1938 | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Storm in a Teacup (Alexander Korda) is the tidiest, canniest, best-played bit of heather comedy to come from across the sea since René Clair made The Ghost Goes West. Provost Gow of Baikie (Cecil Parker), treading pompously toward Parliament, stumbled over Mrs. Honoria Hegarty's (Sara Allgood's) dog. Patsy, and her without the money to buy him a license at all. With the twists given this incident by a bright young journalist (Rex Harrison), Patsy's grief is heard all the way to London, and the resulting sympathy nearly forces Provost Gow into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buy British | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Effects. Sulfanilamide inhibits the growth of certain germs, perhaps injuring them "in such a way as to permit them to be [destroyed] by the white blood cells." It also seems to strengthen the resistance of the body toward germs and to inhibit the production of toxins by germs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sulfanilamide Survey | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...town that grew up without at least one church in its midst. Even the smallest settlements could support churches of two or three different Protestant denominations. Today the trend, observable particularly in new TVA towns in the South, and in such Government developments as Greenbelt in Maryland, is toward community churches, one to a locality. Away out in front of this trend last week marched a suburb of Richmond, Va. named Hampton Gardens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Churchless Gardens | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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