Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's physical infirmity was reviewed in Tevere, with this conclusion: "One can understand why Roosevelt pushes his country toward war. He is a man of catastrophe, he is a man of ill luck, and he wants to bring ill luck to America." To U. S. Ambassador William Phillips this seemed a bit too much. He protested to Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. Result: continued front-page anti-U. S. editorials in almost every Italian newspaper...
...Board of Education, even more impressed by protests from Catholic groups than by their responsibility toward innocence, decided not to teach "mammalian reproduction." But Mr. Buck was not done. He sent his secretary, Eugene R. Canudo (onetime secretary to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia) to make an investigation into youthful sex problems in the nation's biggest city. Mr. Canudo collected literature on sex education. He also went to the courts, the police, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Last week he brought back a report that caused the Board of Education to reconsider its decision. Salient facts...
Inside this head-shaped ball, which cilmbs like some lazy bubble toward the surface, is compacted all the intricate machinery which labors to keep its actions under control. In a little cubicle reserved for him amid all this mechanism is the sole human occupant--Vag. There is room for only Vag there. He sits motionless at the single grilled window, staring out vacantly as he has done ever since The Descent early in January. His straight-focussed eyes gaze out through the crisscross grill which makes whatever he sees appear as if viewed through some huge bloodshot...
...leaders which emerge in the Freshman year regularly remain leaders throughout their four years because of democratic inertia, and in so far as they are illogically chosen the problem remains unsolved at its root. On the whole, however, the report is constructive, and its proposals should certainly go far toward improving Harvard politics...
...policy of the department needs clarification for the undergraduates Mr. Faild in a permanent capacity would work toward this...