Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the general student body may not be alert enough to realize it, Widener Library has been making steps forward in the last few weeks toward the eventual goal of providing genuinely adequate service to the undergraduates. Not the least of the factors making for improvement has been the realization on the part of those who are responsible for Widener's destiny that the students are vitally interested in their collection of books, a realization that has been brought home to the staff with dramatic force by the knowledge that the Student Council is considering looking into the entire situation...
Once again the American History Examinations have moved toward the realization of the dreams of President Conant and the men who are in charge of "selling" the extra-curricular study of our nation's history and culture to the undergraduate body. Yesterday the list of thirty candidates for the first examination was completed, and though thirty may not seem a large number out of an undergraduate group of over three thousand, the University should feel encouraged in finding thirty men who have enough initiative over and above that spent on their regular courses and examinations to submit to an extra...
Next day Japan had grown so belligerent toward the Brussels Conference that the Belgian Government hastily informed Tokyo that if October 30 seems too early a date the Conference can be postponed, but the Imperial Japanese Government were expected to announce this week that they will refuse the invitation to sit in, in any case...
...washed-up play property when unknown Playwrights John Murray & Allen Boretz brought it to Abbott. Sam Harris had tried it out in Philadelphia two years earlier with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer money. It was a $23,000 flop; When the Harris option lapsed, Abbott looked at the script, felt warmly toward it because it was about Broadway, suggested a few changes. The authors condensed three scenes into one, picked a tag for it out of the second act, Abbott sent it on to wild acclaim. In similar warmhearted fashion he undertook Brother Rat because it was a play about youngsters written...
...circle the voltage is reversed, so that they get a kick of 50,000 volts to boost them around the other side of the circle at higher speed. After another half-circle the reversed voltage hits them again, and so on. The deuterons go spiraling outward, faster and faster, toward the rim of the tank. After being kicked 100 times by 50,000 volts, they attain speeds of 5,000,000 electron-volts. As they approach the rim of the tank, they are guided by a deflecting plate through a window and thence against any target the researchers choose...