Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traditional Arab war dances. With the first glimmer of dawn on the day after Israel was born, they began to wind down the road to the Jordan Valley in tanks, armored cars and trucks, slapping at mosquitoes in the heat. They crossed the river by Allenby Bridge, moved toward Jericho. Some Legionnaires were in Palestine already. Their first operations, confined to the Arab allotment in Palestine under the U.N. partition plan, were to occupy villages north and south of Jerusalem...
...writers found widespread Unitarian agreement on only three points: 1) belief in the dignity and promise of man; 2) insistence on "the principle of the free mind"; 3) "a common program of [liberal] social action." On matters theological there seemed almost as many opinions as there were Unitarians; toward God, attitudes ranged from emphatic interest through vagueness and indifference to flat rejection. Sample views...
...chief stumbling block in local educational philosophizing has always been the fear that any change in the delicate balance of faculty and students would lead away from the independence of which the University and the College have been so proud. There is a thesis which implies that any change toward making people want to learn will mean a dean's office telling students what courses to take, or perhaps a psychoanalyst asking each man what he is thinking every...
Boston's action shines forth as an encouraging example of what can be done in an age when automobiles are getting sleeker, and parking space prospects bleaker. In New York, car lots have arisen on steel legs toward the heavens. Boston, not to be outdone, is going in the opposite direction. Yet Cambridge--and particularly the College--seems to be caught in the middle, getting nowhere, and in its own good time...
...lack of guidance toward choosing a curriculum, the awesome impersonality of the instruction-examination system, the absence, where tutorial has passed away, of any help in molding course material into a meaningful education--these indifferences combine into a nebulousness in which many students can find little satisfaction and less inspiration. The fundamental result of these evils is that students in general prefer to spend their time doing almost anything but learning. Rather than learn, they devote themselves to organizations, perhaps, or to drinking beer, or to almost any sort of life in which they can find more stimulation than...