Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major fight start, we're sure to go in. Our best chance is in the policy toward which our government is moving, to apply our pressures wherever possible upon the side where, they will tend to repress aggressive action, realizing that to be effective in this desperate game means being not afraid to call a bluff when it is made. The best way to stay out of war is not being afraid to go into it. --The Yale News...
...undergraduate who waits until his senior year to consider these questions will find the pressure of securing congenial employment warping his judgment as he seeks more and more earnestly, toward Commencement Day, to establish himself satisfactorily in some...
...Bock in his Report to the President has shown his insight into student problems and has gone far in implying a solution to the factors of modern civilization as they threaten to impede Harvard's progress. His words are proof, if proof be needed, that the University's attitude toward the undergraduate must change with changing times if he is fully to benefit from what the College has to offer...
...last Lorimer left in the Curtis Publishing Co., resigned to continue writing-with his wife -stories like After Dark, which he recently sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $25,000. He and his brother retain a small holding of Curtis stock.* Ironically, with Graeme Lorimer's eyes turned toward Hollywood, a fugitive from the film colony. Merritt Hulburd, will fill his vacancy on the Post. Merritt Hulburd, Graeme Lorimer's classmate (1923) and fraternity brother (Psi U) at the University of Pennsylvania, persuaded Samuel Goldwyn to tear up his contract, which had over three years...
Last week Dr. Philip Rodney White of the Rockefeller Institute's Princeton laboratories took a long stride toward solving the problem, and incidentally spilled much wind from the sails of the cohesion theorists, by announcing that he had found enormous pressures in the roots of tomato plants-pressures high enough to serve tomato plants hundreds of feet tall. The trouble with previous pressure experiments, it appeared, was that they were made on dead or dying roots. At Princeton, Dr. White has an apparatus which keeps detached roots alive indefinitely by supplying them with nutrient fluid. When he attached glass...