Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chapel steeple or taking the president's buggy apart, were much more fun," he declared. "However, I think the college boys of today study harder . . . of course, the freedom of discussion and study given students can be carried too far, but I don not think it tends toward socialism. It is an important part of the educational process...
Attracted by the oozing sap, a winged bark louse flitted greedily around the tree. Alighting on the sticky stuff, he was soon stuck fast. A watchful spider darted toward the struggling louse, had almost reached him when the flow of sap engulfed both him and his quarry...
Professor Albig summarizes many experiments in the measurement and control of public opinion. And there have been some darbs. In nine colleges from Stanford to Columbia, students' attitudes toward Japan and China were tested, after which some were given a bombardment of Japanese and some of Chinese propaganda. Each group changed its collective mind. At the University of Iowa, opinion-testers pretended that an Australian ex-Prime Minister Hughes was in Iowa on a lecture tour, planted 15 editorials approving him, 15 opposed, let the favorable editorials be read by one group, the unfavorable by another. Of the group...
...wanes at no predictable times and along no predictable lines. A few present hardships, however, must not be permitted to interfere with general good on a broad basis. The plan, it is believed, will form the second step, with the inauguration of the endowment plan considered as the first, toward "athletics for all" at Harvard...
...beauty", what constitutes indeed a work of art. Since it is quite probable that there are as many masterpieces ahead of us as behind us, and that present and future accomplishments in art depend on the degree to which the layman can develop an intelligent, imaginative and critical attitude toward, the work of contemporary painters, sculptors, architects and designers, it would seem desirable that we cease oncourag- ing art to live on its reputation, and insist that' it earn one in our time and with our help. I do not believe it a less scholarly enterprise to investigate the effects...