Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ablest leaders of yesterday were gone from the T.U.C. platform. Many were in government jobs. In a puzzling sense they were in the positions the capitalist bosses used to occupy-and sometimes their attitude toward the unions was that of bosses, not that of brother laborites...
...love of my mother, which God has given us as the dearest thing in our lives? Just think that there can be no family without a mother . . . What reason can you give for defining me as a bloodthirsty scoundrel if I kill you only because I feel a duty toward my mother...
Like every Canadian Prime Minister, St. Laurent faces the problem of bridging the gulf between English and French. His own French-Irish background, his perfect bilingualism, have already contributed a lot toward bringing French-and English-speaking Canada closer. He himself never uses the term "French Canadian"; his phrase is "French-speaking Canadians." But wise Politician St. Laurent knows that French-speaking Canada can not be brushed off with symbols and phrases. He has been methodically building up French Canadian representation in the civil service, where it had fallen well below the 2-to-1 ratio of Canada's English...
...such items as U.S.-made cars and clothes, U.S.-grown citrus fruit, Hollywood movies. Canada would save U.S. dollars, but it would undoubtedly place a heavy strain on the Canadian confederation, especially on the Western Prairies and the Maritime Provinces, where the facts of geography exert an extra pull toward trade with...
What should a student get out of college? Most people think that the liberal arts may be fine for their daughters, but that a son's education should be weighted toward training him "for a particular occupation or profession"-with the liberal arts secondary. One group who are inclined to reverse the order: college graduates themselves. But even with them, the liberal arts have no runaway; 44% of the grads prefer a liberal arts emphasis, 38% are for technical and professional emphasis, and 18% say "it depends" or have no opinion...