Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Evans Hughes had made the question harder by declining to keynote. In him the committee would have rejoiced. He had renounced candidacy. Toward all the candidates he had seemed equally impartial. He would have ennobled the occasion. But Mr. Hughes offered his work at the Pan-American Congress as his excuse for eschewing active service for a time...
...great goals those Eastman scientists have ahead of them and toward which progress has already been made-pictures that reproduce objects in their natural colors, and that give the impression of depth as well as of height and breadth. Colored cinemas are already being shown regularly. But they are painful to watch; the colors, notably the reds, do not blend properly. Pictures giving the illusion of three dimensions have also been cast and screened. To behold them, spectators have been obliged to use special and cumbersome opera-glasses. Nonetheless, these are stages on the way to perfect photography...
Fretful, impatient, three Germans paced the Baldonnel Airdrome at Dublin, Ireland. Their plane was poised for flight, pointed westward, over the broad expanse of the Atlantic Ocean, toward America. Anxious, disappointed, obviously annoyed at delays, they waited for favorable weather reports, for they meant to be the first to fly successfully from the Old World...
...fact, the tendency of the professor might be deemed more toward religion in general and Christianity in particular than that of the student. No small proportion of the faculty of Harvard lectures in Appleton Chapel, and undoubtedly there is a greater proportion of the faculty in attendance at the nine o'clock service than of the student body. Such a "pallid prophet" as Mr. Biederwolf mentions gets the least sympathetic audience among college minds...
...Chemistry contemplates making the change, there will be available data that would seem to bear somewhat directly on the decision. Two years ago the Department of Bio-Chemical Sciences was created, with the object of removing evils then present in the system of pre-medical education. Although the achievements toward which the two systems point are essentially different, there is a similarity between the field that is not wholly superficial. The kinship between Physics and Chemistry is likewise great enough so that the influence of the sister science will probably be thrown into the scales. Dangerous in the extreme would...