Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game will be spiced by one further bit of intelligence, the fact that the M.I.T. captain refereed the Harvard-McGill game and the crowd present was not especially pleased with all of his decisions. Consequently, feeling among the fans and possibly among the players will probably run high toward this unfortunate...
...Class of 1949 unofficially enters the ranks of the alumni next week when it receives its first appeal from the Harvard Fund Council to contribute toward its twenty-fifth anniversary gift to the College...
Since the transaction, WBMS has gone toward the black--and, in the opinion of many of its listeners, gone downhill as well. Its programs rely heavily on the playing of short, and often inferior Rombergish selections, and are surfeited with mediocre commercials. Longer symphonic works mean less space for commercial plugs, and have therefore dropped to second place in programming. Listener reaction has been sharp: "The trouble is," says Program Director John Thornton, "that people expect a lot, and give nothing in return. When the Endowment Series was discontinued, we received over a thousand letters from our listeners...
...Harvey and I sit in the bars," reminisces Elwood P. Dowd dreamily, "and we have a drink or two and play the jukebox. Soon the faces of the other people turn toward mine and smile . . . Then I introduce them to Harvey...
...about toros and toreros since Heming way's Death in the Afternoon. Unlike Hemingway's masterpiece, which was part fine reporting and part esthetics, The Brave Bulls is a novel written up to the classic hilt, with the sweat of honest craftsmanship; it goes a long way toward being, like the corrida that is its climax "a combat without adornment, all tragedy, all truth...