Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feud, may shortly be asked to join the bipod, making it again a tripod. Keeping all Hungary's cards close to his chest, her Premier ended the Fascist festivities by vaguely declaring: "Our friendly relations with the Rome-Berlin Axis give us renewed hope that our efforts, directed toward the realization of an enduring and just Peace, will bear their fruit...
...unified language and should be in fact a unified human endeavor. Out of this grew a series of yearly congresses on unified science, held in Prague, Paris, Copenhagen, Cambridge, and attended by scholars from many lands. Dr. Neurath's plan of an International Encyclopedia of Unified Science moved toward fruition. This large project was not intended to impose an arbitrary super-system on all the branches of learning, or to suppress honest controversy over the interpretation of facts, which is a potent stimulus to scientific progress. The Encyclopedia was rather to build bridges from one science to another...
...church are denied to those who give nothing. About one-third pay tithes in full, another third in part. Tithes, which Mormons claim brought in more money last year than ever before, operate the enormous Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, finance missions and schools, pay 60% toward construction of local chapels and tabernacles. And tithes are intended to pay for part of the Mormon Church Security Program, widely publicized after its establishment two years ago as a rugged, pioneering, common-sense way to get self-respecting Mormons off Federal relief...
Japanese forces, advancing by land and water up the Yangtze River toward Hankow, were delayed last week besieging the Chinese Lion Hill Forts 145 miles down stream near Kiukiang. Daring Chinese fliers in swift, efficient Soviet-built planes bombed and battered Japanese river gun boats, claimed to have sunk 25 and badly damaged 19. None denied that numbers of disabled Japanese craft were being towed down the Yangtze for repairs at Shanghai, Chinese spokesmen even admitted boldly that planes which hitherto have been driving Japanese bombers away from Hankow and the other Wuhan cities last week, left this defensive work...
...reported: "It appears that the lads of the upper forms have their own debating teams, pick their own subjects and conduct their oratorical tournaments without let or hindrance from their instructors. Their last jousting was due to fall . . . just before close of school for the summer. . . . It was only toward the end that the headmaster, the Rev. Endicott Peabody, learned the topic under discussion, descended with outraged screams and howls upon the entire program, called everything off and retired to his study mopping his clerical brow over the narrowest call of his career. The lads had selected as a subject...