Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusion of the speech, the King and Queen stepped down from the marquee into the open area. The grouped World War Veterans kept their places stiffly for a moment, and then, chanting "We want the King!", surged toward the Royal couple. Guards moved to interfere but the King waved them away. A greying veteran grasped the King's hand with his right, the Queen's with his left. Others slapped the King on the back, wrung the Queen's free hand. "You don't need any bullet-proof glass here, Your Majesty!" they cried. "God bless...
Light from the most distant of the external galaxies, when broken up into its component colors by a prism or grating, is shifted toward the red end of the spectrum, indicating that the galaxies are retreating in all directions.* For them, the apparent velocity is roughly proportional to the distance. But among the nearest galaxies, this ratio does not hold. The Milky Way appears to be approaching some, receding from others. To isolate this motion, Dr. Hubble had to allow for and discount the sun's own movement within the Milky Way-since he was perforce using the solar...
...Rome of a bright spring morning. A vast, good-humored mob filled St. Peter's Square, craned necks toward the Arch of Bells. Suddenly the cheers exploded. Through the Arch of Bells into the square came Pope Pius XII, in gold-embroidered cape, followed by a brilliantly robed procession. The Pope climbed into a glistening, open-topped convertible sedan. Into nine other limousines clambered his retinue. By a devious four-mile route across Rome, past kneeling and cheering thousands, past the packed stands in the Via dell' Impero, the Pope's motorcade wound its slow...
...foreign languages a nation chooses to study are, like its songs, one measure of its emotional condition. Last week Dr. Theodore Huebener, director of foreign languages in New York City's public schools, threw light on the present U. S. attitude toward foreigners in a report on the languages studied by the city's high-school youth. Overwhelming favorite (107,000 students): French. Second (41,400): Spanish. Well down on the list (16,500) but gaining fast: Italian. Most spectacular trend: a five-year drop (since Hitler) of 35% in the number studying German...
...followed this with graduate work at Wisconsin and University of Chicago, where he coached football under Amos Alonzo Stagg. A Ph.D. thesis on Illinois school finance in 1924 started Floyd Reeves toward national renown. He made 400 surveys of school systems and colleges, became the No. 1 U. S. expert on college administration, directed a survey of University of Chicago, where he is still a professor, that shaped the Hutchins plan...