Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Churchill, pro-German Lord & Lady Londonderry and all the Cabinet's biggest wigs & wives. The news tickers at No. 10 were chattering about how all Munich's motor vehicles, including beer trucks, had been commandeered and were roaring out along Adolf Hitler's concrete military Autobahnen toward Austria...
...Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," famed Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes, could think of nothing better than to observe: "In spite of the great importance of material strength . . . the most important forces are spiritual." After all. one bold remark by Benes might cause Hitler to speed German troops toward Prague, as well as Vienna...
...tousled, 55-year-old Percy Williams Bridgman, famed Harvard physicist, admits that people are harder to understand than physics. In time, however, he thinks that man's complex make-up can be plotted and simplified, provided men take over the physicist's skeptical (but not cynical) attitude toward things-in-general. His major discovery, after 300 pages of considering man's odd behavior, is that people are mentally lazy...
Showing that Britain has a more tolerant attitude toward ESP than elsewhere Murphy thinks that the rapid growth of spiritualism as a cult in America impaired rather than assisted the spread of systematic scientific inquiry...
...cannot help admiring, and a concrete way for the University to show its admiration would be to assign a public speaking instructor as debating coach. This would not only be giving Harvard debating an advantage long enjoyed by every other Ivy League college, but it would be going far toward providing the missing link in the House Plan...