Word: furthering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
New Spirit. To instill new spirit in his armies Weygand dismissed 15 generals and promoted seven younger colonels to be major generals-a move likely to produce more energy and brainpower. But if he could stretch his men and artillery far enough, he still was short of other things. The...
With the act of childbirth Emily reaches the last life experience known to the villagers. She lives through one more they do not have. In giving birth she nearly dies. As she wavers along the margin of life, Emily comes to the graveyard, sees the village dead, just as they...
In spite of such a script and a Robert Taylor who strides woodenly about the screen with an officer's hat and a swagger stick, Miss Vivien Leigh almost succeeds in making the story a credible one. As the ill-fated little ballet dancer who could do entrechat six (Nijinski...
Henry Reiss 2GB, student representative for the "Queen Wilhelmina Fund", reported "only a slight response so far" to the appeal which he made in a letter published in the CRIMSON of May 27. However, he predicted better results after further publicizing through some medium such as posters in the Houses...
But Baxter went further and discussed academic freedom: "Chancellor Capen of the University of Buffalo . . . before the Association of American University Professors . . . referred to the 'exhibitionists' and 'mountebanks' in the academic world 'who to feed their own vanity, recklessly stake the profession's most precious and hard-won possession'." Baxter...