Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average citizen of normal intelligence deplores such spectacles as Heflin, Volstead, the K. K. K., the drab monotony of Mr. Coolidge, and like tendencies; he maintains a respectful and open-minded attitude toward Al Smith and wife, "humble example(s) of transmogrification," and kindred influences; therefore he resents being so subtly harangued by a paper that makes an issue of nonpartisanship. TIME grinds axes and shouts "News!" from cover to cover...
Then from Algiers came sailing toward Marseilles, last week, another Barbe Blue, with 18 women to his discredit. He was 60, and named Jerome Drat. Through some occult divination the Marseilles poor unequalled for viciousness in all France, decided that the two Barbe Bleus were the same man under different aliases, and prepared to give him a brick-and-bludgeon reception...
...owner, described a gorilla hunt: "Hoo-Hoo's mother and two aunts were escorting him through the jungles. My 21 pygmies chased him 17 days and nights. At length ... the pygmies let fly at him with their poisoned arrows." Deposited gingerly on a waiting truck, Hoo-Hoo jolted toward Camden, N. J., and Hunter Bucks' personal, private...
...reporters to get the right angle on physiology and the cloudy future, wherein lay the purpose of his endowment fund. The half million dollars was put in trust in memory of his scientist-son, Charles Francis Brush Jr., who died last year. Its income is "to finance efforts contributing toward the betterment of the human stock and toward the regulation of the increase of population, to the end that children shall be begotten only under conditions which make possible a heritage of mental and physical health, and a favorable environment...
Europe, characterized the U. S. as one of the greatest influences toward international brotherhood and as "that great, great republic which has inspired free government of the earth to fight for freedom...