Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced by M. Poincaré, prior to his recent sweeping victory at the general election (TIME, May 7), the present Conversion Loan is a firm preliminary step toward eventual restoration of the stabilized franc to a gold basis...
Protectorate. Among Chinese the threat from Tokyo was generally taken to mean that Japanese Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka now purposes to carry his famed "positive policy" toward China to the extreme of establishing a de facto Japanese Protectorate over Manchuria...
...that of the United States should allow its President, and to an even greater extent its Vice-President, to be chosen by the essentially haphazard methods actually employed. The restraints placed on American political leaders which in turn lead to comparative political inaction have caused a general apathy toward political matters in the American public which combined with the great prosperity of American life is sufficient to secure passive acceptance of existing governmental institutions...
...understanding. This attitude leads to marshaling of facts and fancy, into an array which is presented in a fashion calculated only to get it all out on time. The new necessity to convince a body of intelligent fellow-beings whose sentiments have been sound already will lead inevitably toward a more careful preparation of briefs with special at tention to those qualities which make argument at once convincing and good to hear...
...course, imagine that our flight was more than a first tottering step toward establishing commercial transoceanic air service, but we did prove that a West-to-East flight was possible. We gained much valuable experience, however, especially concerning the magnetic fields over Labrador, where our compass responses were exceedingly eccentric...