Word: towards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...State Department's immediate reaction to Marshal Tito's recognition of the East German government has been a familiarly negative one. The prospect of cutting off aid to Yugoslavia is unfortunately on its way toward becoming a reality...
...several different approaches to the fusion problem have "for some months been yielding substantial numbers of neutrons . . ." These neutrons, the announcement explained, may come from the energy-yielding fusion of deuterium (heavy hydrogen) nuclei. If the scientists can prove that they do, an important step will have been taken toward controlled fusion...
Spanish Romanesque paintings were executed between the 11th and 13th centuries, when Western European man was emerging from the dark ages toward the high noon of Gothic glory. Inspired by itinerant artists who traveled from Italy to Switzerland, the Rhine basin, France and Spain, the Catalan painters in their early Romanesque works depicted intense, embattled faith, open to the ever-present terror of eternal damnation and filled with awe in the presence of a stiff, remote, aloof...
...Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the artist flushed and grated: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach!" Then the romantic spirit of the 19th century added its profound effect. Toward the end of that century, Albert Pinkham Ryder remarked that an artist "should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?" Extending that subjective spirit, Arthur Dove was painting abstractions...
Available information was interpreted as indicating that Marshal Zhukov has probably been downgraded instead of being headed toward a new promotion...