Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Christer Gates entered upon a spiritual scrimmage, a gridiron Golgotha which last week would have attained a "Stover at Yale" quality but for the fact that practically everyone at Dartmouth-the dean, the football team, the coach, the college publicity office-behaved toward Gates with the utmost sympathy. In his room, a few nights before the Yale game, had appeared a white-clad figure who said: "I am the Lord, and I command you to play football with Dartmouth...
...police were patrolling his house, Danton's Death has somehow struck the fancy of modern revolutionaries in the theatre, was produced in German in Manhattan by Max Reinhardt in 1927. It reveals the "moderate" Danton (Martin Gabel), weary of bloodshed, broken in purpose, fallen in power, propelled toward the guillotine through the fanatical ardor of Robespierre (Vladimir Sokoloff), the Incorruptible. After the knife has fallen, Robespierre's man Friday, Saint-Just (Orson Welles), defends the rigors of revolution in a speech of flame...
...barrage of entertaining booklets make readers friendly toward GM by asking their advice. An important contribution to GM merchandising was Weaver's finding out how customers like to have their cars serviced passing the information on to GM dealers. Many of his mailings have been planned not so much to get information as to sell cars by stirring up interest in a laggard territory...
Pontiac introduces a Quality Six at $866. Lower this year by $20 to $40, the regular DeLuxe Six and Eight are $922 up and $970 up respectively. Unspectacularly designed, Pontiac inclines toward roominess, generosity in accessories...
...Better Toward...