Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of "league" thought, Alfaro felt that rather than having an American league invested with political power which has proved to be such a failure in the League of Nations, it would be better to continue with the Pan American Union and confine political relationships to covenants tending toward closer association...
Perhaps the author should have explored more fully the implications of Schumpeter's definition of imperialism as an "objectless, irrational, violent disposition toward indefinite, purposeless expansion." What is implied here is the problematical contrast between absolutism's quest of glory and aggrandizement as an end in itself and the rationally oriented calculus of bourgeois capitalism. Such encomium of the profit motive strikes me as no more realistic than the Marxist interpretation of imperialism...
...estimated that for the first full year of operation of the University plan the contribution of the University toward future service pensions and insurance will amount to 126% of the contributions of its employees. In addition to this, the University has established a substantial reserve for the payment of pensions for past service, toward which its employees make no contribution...
...managers from the various halls will undertake the organization of teams from groups of dormitories in the Yard and the planning of schedules. Dr. Clarence B. Van Wyck, Secretary of the Department of Physical Education, has said that participation in these inter-dormitory contests will count as credit toward compulsory exercise...
...Graduate School of Education will act upon the above recommendations, it will go a long way toward the achievement of the goal it has set for itself. Samuel Sinnreich 2G.Ed...