Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discovered until 30 days later when a customer noticed whiskey leaking through the ceiling. Said Fleming: "I never had it so good." ¶Burbank, Calif, called off plans for a $2,500 float to represent the city at Pasadena's Tournament of Roses, decided to spend the money toward a new sewer. ¶After a year of editorializing, letter-writing and resolution-passing, local historians of Babylon, N.Y. got the Board on Geographic Names to reverse itself, make the name of their creek Sumpwams, instead of Sumpwams. Expressing gratification, J. H. McAllister of the Babylon Leader explained...
...novelist writes a play about Moliere, which the great Saxon agrees to produce. Under the waspish direction of Saxon, the novelist rewrites and rewrites, losing his artistic independence. The writer's wife feels that Saxon's tyrannical influence is lousing up her home life, and takes a tearful step toward Reno. But after a series of contretemps, Saxon's theatrical enterprises crash, the novelist nimbly leaps aside to the arms of his missus--and Saxon latches on leech-like to another victim...
Within five days, Princeton had severed athletic relationships with Harvard in all sports, and the nation's press had risen to support Old Nassau and to describe Harvard's attitude toward her as "cheap" and "unsavory...
Miller regretted that "Amphtiryen '38" appeared too late to go on tour but added that more effort will be directed toward staging a successful tour...
...maintain with Henry Wallace that the Draft is only one more step in the drive toward war in the part of the bankers and general who control our government's policy. We further assert that Mr. Conant's universal military training program lends them considerable encouragement from noted civilian sources to continue their war program. Harvard Committee for Wallace