Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation's newspapers are obligingly headlining their sensational remarks, clearer heads are calmly reexamining the implications of America's new foreign policy. In this connection the Harvard petition asking removal of the embargo on Loyalist Spain, although ill-timed and misdirected, is nevertheless an indication of a constructive attitude toward American cooperation in the world...
...absolutely essential that public opinion come more generally to recognize these facts. Toward that end, all such agitation as is represented by the Spanish petition is valuable; but in view of recent events, some of which had occurred when the petition was framed, a far more practical attitude would oppose the mandatory provisions of the neutrality act. This miscalled "Peace Act of 1937" can really promote peace only when it makes possible discrimination against an aggressor; so long as it continues to deny American support to the forces making for world order-and thus, by default, actually improves the position...
After the faceoff the blood begins to flow in copious quantities. The Winthrop forward line, composed of Jack Kennedy, Torby Macdonald, and Ben Smith goes crashing down toward the Lowell cage, battering the puck about like an old shoe. The usual result of such a foray into enemy territory is a terrific 10-man collision, the nucleus of which is the man with the puck. There is no escaping this sort of defense. Then Lowell's Bud Doering takes the misshapen rubber disk that has been beaten to a pulp by the Winthrop bludgeons, and careens down the ice until...
...doctors) has approved these recommendations, but objects to the further suggestion that all medical service in the U. S. be organized on a taxation or insurance basis. To A. M. A. leadership, this proposal smacks of socialized medicine. As the bill headed toward the floors of Congress, A. M. A. Leaders Irvin Abell and Olin West rushed to Washington to repeat their objections to President Roosevelt...
...test of an editor's humor comes, of course, in his attitude toward manuscripts. Editor Burnett's advise to authors: do not write farm novels, family chronicles, trilogies, books about childhood, adolescence, abortions; do not write about neurotics ("self-love's labor lost"), and, if you are a young Armenian, stop writing imitations of Saroyan...