Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reforms, forcing issues to bring about the national Liberal v. Conservative realignment he had undertaken. 2) He could acquiesce in the new independence of Congress and let it work out its own solutions to controversial problems like Labor law and Social Security revision, railroad rehabilitation, while he led on toward larger, less controversial goals such as national Rearmament and security for the Western Hemisphere. 3) He could seek by placation and compromise to restore harmony within his own party...
...textbook profits, drew plans for his building. For 15 years he said nothing to his colleagues about his plans. Then one day in 1928 he walked into the office of Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur, laid $5,000 in securities on his desk as the first payment toward a fund for erecting the building. Each year for the next four years he added...
...declared that his reorganizing was completed,"in the main any way," and that FCC was now "going to town." First sally toward town came this week-the opening of the Commission's radio monopoly hearings...
...services which the Office can then render them are of a somewhat intangible nature, but nevertheless of great value. It can, first of all, start them thinking seriously and correctly about a choice of career. Because of the complexities of a vocational decision as well as its importance toward a productive and happy life, it requires, not merely a snap judgment in the senior year when the student has other worries and problems besetting him, but recurrent consideration on spare Sunday afternoons and off evenings throughout all the college years. Yet most students are prone to procrastinate on such matters...
Ends Bart Kelly and Al Maguire, guards Howard Johnson and Tony Staruski, center Dan Cheever, blocking back Frazier Curtis, bucking back Larry Johnson, and wingback Ray Jones saw action toward the end of the game. Kelly distinguished himself with a couple of good tackles and recovered a fumble, while Jones ran well on two plays and intercepted a pass on the game's final play...