Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston boys applying for the instruction are asked about their chief interests, and are assigned to tutors working in these fields. All the work is informal, in the university students' rooms. The studies do not count toward college degrees, but are intended to assist the tutees in business, or in keeping up school work until they can go to college...
...some of the post-Munich anti-democratic decrees. Fascism had intervened openly in Spain, had fostered a revolt in Brazil, was covertly aiding revolutionary movements in Rumania, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania. In Finland a foreign minister had to resign under Nazi pressure. Throughout eastern Europe after Munich the trend was toward less freedom, more dictatorship. In the U. S. alone did democracy feel itself strong enough at year's end to give Hitler his come-uppance...
...territory may soon be grabbed by the Nazis just as she lately made a grab in Czecho-Slovakia, hastened to strengthen her sudden friendship with Russia. Traditional enemies, Russia and Poland month ago broke a long period of diplomatic coolness with a declaration of their good intentions toward each other. To this rapprochement last week was added a trade treaty which is expected to multiply thirtyfold the trade between the two nations...
Their train of thought was hardly streamlined. After a preamble, which laid the industry's troubles to Government "favoritism" toward certain competing forms of transport, they listed proposals very similar to those formulated at the President's behest last April by the Splawn Committee of three ICCommissioners (TIME, April...
...cars that spin from Kishinev down to Galatz, Braila and Bucharest were thronged with festive, gaily-cloaked peasants visiting from village to village. East of Galatz two holiday trains sped along the winding, single-track line in a blinding storm. Someone had blundered, for they were running head on toward each other. Near Reni they crashed. For hours the dying lay with the dead in the heaping snow while rescue trains ploughed through from Galatz. Late Christmas night the dead were counted at 80, the wounded...