Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When such opinion tends toward unanimity, it is a force which a government cannot possibly overlook and will not fail to reflect in its policies and actions...
...newcomer among the Sunday afternoon radio programs, the half-hour of contemporary music sponsored over WHDH by the Longy School is a step, though a small one, toward satisfying a very conspicuous need in radio music. These concerts will present the works of present-day composers, most of whom are writing prolifically in the smaller forms. The plan is timely and, we think, indicative of increasing interest among performers and audiences in the somewhat neglected realm of chamber and salon music. Though this is a non-commercial program, it is definitely not an amateurish undertaking, as the performers...
...small push along a four-mile front, but the first attack in force the Germans have made. It came along the northern flank through the Moselle Valley-an offensive that an official French communique described as "an attack supported by artillery fire." French outposts were slowly driven back toward the Maginot Line. From the rear came reinforcements and a counterattack and at the end of the day the German infantry had been stopped, at least for the time. But they had pushed back about a mile and a quarter into the no-man's-land between the Maginot Line...
...theatres of Europe the war will bring changes, but no spectacular ones. There will be lowered box-office prices. There will be more rigid censorship. On the other hand, there is no sign that the theatre will be used for propaganda. The tendency is all the other way-toward making people forget the war. Commented a reviewer when The Importance of Being Earnest was revived in a London suburb: "Every one realized the importance of not being earnest...
...Such ignorance, thinks capable Biographer Rourke (Gómez: Tyrant of the Andes), is a gauge of "a century of misunderstandings and suspicions between the two Americas." A knowledge of Bolívar, he believes, would go far to explain South Americans' history and temperament, particularly their tendency toward dictatorship. For it was that tendency which set Bolívar's main problems, finally wrecked his great dream of a pan-American union...