Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign policy that dated from 1920. But since the U. S. turned its back on the League of Nations, the U. S. has been sternly devoted to a policy of isolation and a theory that U. S. safety is best served by a 100% laissez faire attitude toward all international quarrels. After more than 15 years that policy was last spring embodied in a permanent Neutrality Act, just in time to die. For isolation to the U. S. means isolation from Europe and 1937 put isolation in a new light by raising a new problem in the Orient. Having failed...
Implicit in the official argument is the librarian's conviction that when the public handles the books they are mislaid and inefficiency results. This hostile attitude toward the student who has not mastered the intricacies of the Dewey system is carried to unreasonable extremes. The librarian's passion for order has helped make Widener an uncongenial colossus devoid of all human warmth...
...anxious men below dodged into their auto, sighted Mingalone three miles farther on, lost him once more while honking their way through a snarl of excited autoists on the Maine backroads. One motorist yelled that Mingalone's course had shifted him seaward. Another had spied him whipping along toward North Kennebunk Port...
With this explanation and with the help of $10,000 contributed by late Merchant Edward Albert Filene as his last gesture toward reforming the world, Professor Clyde Raymond Miller of Columbia University's Teachers College, one of the most skillful propagandists of his time this week began to help U. S. citizens to "detect and analyze propaganda" at $2 a year From their Manhattan "laboratory" a small basement room near Columbia on Morningside Heights, Professor Miller and 15 other scholars sent this week to more than 3,000 U. S. newspaper editors, Congressmen, Governors, educators, ministers leaders of labor...
...defeat should not mean too much, for Skip and his boys suffered a season of bad breaks in that one afternoon. Repeatedly the Harvard plays clicked, and the line of scrimmage steadily moved toward the Exeter goal only to have a fumble spirit away a touchdown...