Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...humble. He visited reporters in the press car, laughingly chided them for their bum guesses. At Missouri's drab state capital, Jefferson City, he quieted the cheers of several thousand well-wishers. "After the election's over," he said, "I bear no malice or feel badly toward anyone, because the fellow who lost feels badly enough without being crowed over . . . This is the most wonderful thing that ever happened to a man. But this is a terrible responsibility and you must stand behind...
...chair in memory of the late Professor Samuel Hazzard Cross '12, was announced last night by Mr. Charles H. Watkins '09, President of the Harvard Club of Boston at a dinner celebrating the 35th anniversary of the opening of the clubhouse. More than $150,000 has already been pledged toward the professorship...
...present occasion provides the new administration with a unique opportunity. The Wagner Act came to be regarded by management as one-sided. The Taft-Hartley act was vindicative toward labor. The pendulum has swung widely. Now is the time for a moderate and constructive approach, one which would formulate the legal framework of collective bargaining on a new basis...
...recent years her literary bent has been toward free-lance writing, which she supplements by a typing establishment in the Square. Since 1941 she has done secretarial work for such writers as Edmund Wilson, Esther Forbes, Bernard DeVoto and Donald Ogden Steward, and typed the original of A. J. Cronin's "Shannons...
...ones, for my money, were "The Innocents," by Adrienne Rich '51 and "That Time Removes," by Anne Tolstoi '49. Both authors have a sure grip on the language they use, and on their media in general. Miss Rich's poem is particularly lucid, and she has created an image toward the end that is in itself one of the finest bits of writing to appear since the war in Cambridge's undergraduate literary magazines...