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Word: towards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning last week a blue sedan, with four detectives aboard, sped down a highway toward the Quebec town of Asbestos (pop. 8,500). A heavy truck pulled across the road and the sedan screamed to a skidding stop. A mob of striking asbestos workers sprang from roadside ditches and hedges. They ignored warning police shots, charged in, beat the detectives with lengths of pipe, chair legs and homemade clubs. For the first time in its three months' strike (TIME, Feb. 28), the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor had turned from its policy of nonviolence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Aux Barricades! | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...unfortunate expression of that universalism innate in the German character"), had decided that the Russians were pretty nice people, really. "When I remember how I myself was influenced by Russian writers and Russian culture, I can't hate them," he said. "I believe [they] are fundamentally disinclined toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...test, one electrode is placed against the abdomen, the other inserted into the vagina. If the patient has cancer in the genital tract (or is pregnant, or has certain nonmalignant tumors), the needle on the microvoltmeter dial swings to the left of the center line. If not, it swings toward the right. At Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, cancer was detected in 74 out of 75 cases of women found by other tests to have cancer. Of 616 women shown to have no cancer by the test, only five were later found actually to have the disease. The Burr-Langman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Anti-Social Cells | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...CRIMSON still believes that the error in U.S. policy toward China was made two years ago in choosing between two evils. The CRIMSON hopes that the lesson of China will bring U.S. support of such non-Communists as the Republic of Indonesia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communists in China | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...student's suggestions to improve teaching methods. Not only has the Chemistry Department offered prizes for better instructing but has also set up a program of lectures for their teaching fellows and a routine of frequent inspections to supervise their work. Section men who persist in a casual attitude toward students will have their fellowships discontinued for the following year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Opinion Counts | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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