Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more is wanted by Japanese Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka, although he informed the U. S. State Department last week that the Japanese Government "take [the Kellogg pact] to imply the entire abolition of the institution of war, and they will be glad to render their most cordial cooperation toward the attainment of that...
Slowly the invisible cloud took on impalpable bulk and was wafted by a light breeze across the River Elbe toward Wilhelmsburg. Adults and children dropped without knowing why. Cattle fell as though poleaxed. Dogs, cats, chickens, ducks died gasping, and trees, shrubs, grass began to shrivel. The phosgene drifted over an amusement park. Chubby children with toy balloons crumpled down and let the colored rubber spheres go soaring upward prettily to pure untainted upper air. As the gas spread a little way, a merry wedding breakfast party found their food and bubbling champagne unpalatable, and most collapsed. By now however...
...Great Britain over Afghanistan." When these words were translated to His Majesty in Persian he frowned deeply and said in his reciprocal oration: "I was tremendously impressed by much of what I saw in England (TIME, March 26). . . . I am convinced of the good will of the British Empire toward Afghanistan...
Very different was the attitude of King Amanullah, in Angora last week, when President Mustafa Kemal Pasha cried, in the course of a ringing public address,: "Our nations are sisters! . . . Turkey stands ready to perform her duties toward Afghanistan...
...saddle at No. 2 position when the teams go on the field, according to Major J. B. Wogan of the Military Science Department, coach of the Crimson polo forces. Six chukkers will be played, and small admission fee will be charged, proceeds of which will go toward defraying shipping expenses to the intercollegiate matches at Rye next month...