Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been very convincing about the threat which made it a practical necessity for the U. S. to join the rest of the world (excluding The Netherlands and Scandinavia) in the current armament marathon, to take a further step away from the economy of welfare and toward the economy of warfare prevailing in the bankrupt nations of the world...
...Colonial" type in a "Town of Tomorrow" planned to cover ten acres at the New York World's Fair; 2) photographs of a community of handsome houses built in a modern style outside Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927 by European Architects van der Rohe, Gropius, Corbusier, Oud. "Tomorrow Looking Toward Yesterday?" queried the Museum's neat display...
Continuing their winning ways, the Adams basketeers trimmed a previously undefeated Puritan quintet 16 to 8 yesterday afternoon, maintaining an unbeaten record in their march toward the title...
...Colonel de Basil's toe-dancers. Temperamental Massine had always felt that de Basil cramped his style, had long awaited a chance to launch a company all his own. The chance came when Chicago's art-conscious celebrity-chaser. Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed, steered him toward Yeast Tycoon Julius Fleischmann, who had cherished a secret passion to patronize the arts. Upshot was the organization of the World-Art group with backing ($500,000) by Fleischmann, Harold F. McCormick and other Midwest socialites. De Basil lost not only his principal working choreographer (Massine) to the new group, now named...
...Conqueror of the Seas Author Zweig admits that Magellan was a secretive, unpersonable dictator. But Magellan's voyage he calls "the most glorious Odyssey in the history of mankind." Magellan he defends as a sincere Christian whose ruthlessness was only an unavoidable means toward a great end. His generally known facts take in less detail than most biographers'. As in Author Zweig's other defenses of historical figures he considers maligned (Marie Antoinette, Mary, Queen oj Scotland and the Isles), his method is that of the biographical essay; his persuasiveness is that of the eloquent defense attorney...