Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...civilization. These lectures also serve to further President Conant's program to encourage study in this field. Both of these series of lectures are valuable assets to the university not only for their inherent value as cultural contributions, but for their significance in the scholastic world as an advance toward the spread of learning beyond academic confines...
...next few days will show whether or not the nations are prepared to make a sincere effort to deal with the Spanish problem in a spirit of real .international cooperation. ... In such conditions no one can complain if the patience of those who have striven to keep their responsibilities toward Europe constantly before them is well nigh exhausted. I for one, should certainly not be prepared to utter a criticism of any nation which . . . felt compelled to resume its freedom of action...
With a bankers' convention in town to whet the edge of its skepticism toward the New Deal, tart old Boston reveled last week in the ribbing 59-year-old George M. Cohan gave 55-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Actor Cohan, prime Down East favorite, was appearing in the tryout run of the George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart satire, I'd Rather Be Right, due on Broadway next month. Mummer Cohan wore a pince-nez, assumed a Groton inflection in opening his fireside chats. Musing on budget-balancing and third terms, he sang a song called...
...mass weight would be 822,000,000 tons. Most intelligent insect: the ant, though the wasp and bee run it a close second. Most surprising insect: the dragon fly, which is so fond of live meat it will even eat parts of itself, starting at the tail and eating toward its mouth...
Temporarily, however, grim, Orval Adams was free to return to his opposition to the New Deal. In his brief acceptance speech last week, President Adams announced as his prime objective: "We Must Do Our Part Toward Making All of the People Deficit Conscious...