Word: path
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly...
Suddenly its left wing dropped and the arrow-straight line of its flight path was broken. Inside the cabin a woman screamed. There was a horrible crash as the big silver monoplane broke an electric line. Beyond, only a block from the field, she hit the ground, burst asunder. From houses near by, residents of Cicero Avenue rushed to the wreck, carried out six dead, four who were to die before week's end, six who survived...
...most startling note in the popular group is Harvard's acceptance of the conventional path. When the country acclaims a band or song or when a number is rated high on the Hit Parade broadcast, sales to Harvard students take a rapid jump. Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, and Will Bradley are praised and followed by the Harvard faithful. At the moment, Bonny Goodman is making a comeback since the critics have approved his new band...
...courses, preparatory to graduate work in the School of Design, afford the members an almost unlimited choice in the type of artistic work they may do. Not only is this program unique at Harvard but colleges throughout the country are coming to look to it to blaze a path of progressive teaching through the traditional conservatism of undergraduate instruction...
...course the Vultee strike is a serious matter at this time of breakneck rearming. Of course a strike which ties up production of the Army's basic training planes should be settled as soon as possible. But the stumbling block in the path to adequate defense is not the union requesting a decent living wage; it is the selfish obstinacy of vested interests, guarding fat dividends and munificent executive salaries, by capitalizing upon the imperative character of the present national emergency. And the Vultee strike situation is merely symptomatic of the attitude of the interests and men who dominate...