Word: toward
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...obliged to discontinue altogether the practice of allowing books to be taken out for overnight use, since annoyance to readers the next day exceeds the accommodation to borrowers the night before. Before taking this step, however, I desire to ask the help of all users of the Reading Room toward making the operation of the present method successful. WILLIAM C. LANE, Librarian...
During the early part of the first half the University team was kept on the defensive. Toward the close of the period the graduate attack weakened, the playing of the University team greatly improved, and five goals were scored in rapid succession...
...each man a clean and comfortable home. I suppose they laughed at that, called it paternal government, and, put in that bald shape, it looked like it. There were fifteen thousand tenements in New York at that early day. Today there are eighty thousand and their united influence goes toward the destruction of the home. The discovery, on this side of the Atlantic, that this is nothing less than treason, dates back to the last cholera epidemic...
...beginning of the first half the work of the University team was very poor, but by spasmodic team work two goals were scored by Townsend and Newhall respectively. Toward the end of the half the puck was near Harvard's goal most of the time, but the clever work of the defense prevented any scoring. In the second half the University team took a decided brace, and scored twice almost immediately, making five goals in all during the half. Andover scored twice; one time as the result of a concerted attack, and the second time by an opportune shot when...
...polo game. In scoring, first place in each of the first five events will count 5 points, second place 3, third place 1; and the relay race will count 8 points for the winner. The water polo game, however, will be scored separately and will count as one game toward the intercollegiate championship...