Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought that the campaign was a first-rate contribution and should be continued indefinitely. They even suggested subjects for future series of advertisements (e.g., recreation: to show how advertising has helped the mass production of movies, sporting goods, etc.). Still another wrote as follows: "Your series is well directed toward making economic points, but does not do the job it should in highlighting the peculiarly democratic political contribution of advertising. You could have shown that but for advertisers there would be no free press . . . On this score it would have been interesting to show, by page spreads from newspapers...
...downright untrue. If the Big Three rivalry means nothing, why do 60,000 people come to the Harvard-Yale game annually? Why does that game lead most of the Sunday sports sections the following day? Why does the Yale game count twice as much as any other game toward earning a letter? Why are the Harvard-Princeton and the Harvard-Yale games the only ones which undergraduates and alumni always attend regardless of price or team records? The Big Three rivalry is hardly meaningless, even though the national title is no longer at stake...
What really speaks in favor of recognition, however, is the consequent possibility of America's retaining a foot-hold in China through diplomatic, commercial, educational, and missionary ties, thus leaving China's door open for influence by the West toward the democratic and independent direction. If recognition is delayed for too long, all existing ties between China and the U.S. will be severed, and it will be difficult to re-establish them in the future...
...Bombay WSSF funds go toward establishing student hostels in which the refugee students may live while attending the universities. Because of the expenses these refugees had to bear during migration and resettlement, many require financial aid to be able to afford even the barest necessities of existence...
...these things, from the case method to the two-platoon system, have gone toward making today's Business School a far cry from 1908, the year of the opening...