Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such, it must, in general, be lauded. But not in unqualified terms, for it must be also recognized that there is a sacrifice involved. This sacrifice is a firm grasp of a particular subject. The proposed system tends away from a complete comprehension of a single field, tends toward the "broad knowledge of little depth" so feared and hated by the English Civil Service Examiners. Its danger is rank superficiality...
...final analysis, this question resolves down to two comparatively irreconcilable theories of education. The one favors a deep, firmly rooted, but extremely limited knowledge. It leans toward vocationalism. The other favors a broader and more integrated type of learning. It admits less depth in a particular department, but argues that an examination of all the possible approaches within a wide area to a specific problem, and a consequent understanding of the relations between these different approaches, outweighs the loss. If it is admitted that the objects of formal education are to train the intellectual powers and to further the cultural...
Pounding south one night last week, the crack Paris-Toulouse night express sped toward sleeping Chateauroux. Outside of town, with braked wheels flaming, the express smashed into two freight cars and curled up in a heap of tortured junk, from which trapped passengers screamed for help until long after dawn...
...dedans, in which the spectators sit. On the left of the server's court, and continuing along the same wall beyond the low-slung net into the hazard court, are other recesses called galleries and doors. Behind the receiver is another slot called a grille. Sloping down toward the court over these recesses and over the wall behind the receiver is a shedlike roof called a penthouse. The server serves the ball with a mighty cut, the deadliest trick being to make the ball backspin when it hits the penthouse roof and drop to the court "like a poached...
...moon rotates on its axis in the same period in which it revolves around the earth. Consequently the moon presents nearly the same hemisphere toward the earth at all times. It is always the face of the "man in the moon" that we see and never the back of his head...