Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reached the age when it is up to him to decide whether he is to make the most of his time spent there or whether he is to fritter it away, together with his family's money. This, they say, is the principle on which English universities operate, and toward which Harvard has been inclining...
Henry I. Gilbert is eminently qualified to speak on contemporary music, since his name has stood among the best of American composers for nearly forty years. What his attitude toward the more drastic of modern modern compositions will be is hardly problematical. The rancous Symphonie Mechanique and Flivver Ten million are aberrations, extremes from which he is guarded by a native good taste. The cacaphoniesof the musical rebels of Europe and America have already reached the verge of sounds that would come even within a physical definition of music; they are, furthermore, of an international or rather unnational character, while...
...enforce the law in Cambridge. The same is true of Smith. He uses all the means at his disposal to enforce a law which should be enforced solely by the Federal authorities. Smith is greatly misunderstood in the South, because of the common belief of his attitude toward wetness. But his record as governor of New York should counteract this. It is an enviable record, in a state which was carried by Harding by 1,000,000 people and by Coolidge by half a million, that Smith, a Democrat should have been four times reelected governor...
...decrease his interest in teaching and in the course and to break down the feeling of close personal contact on which all successful teaching must rest. In addition, by thus twitting him in public on a matter in which he knows himself somewhat weak, you have done your best toward fortifying any tendency which might delay his progress in learning to teach...
...Subscriber Riddle, acute, observant, fear for "TIME'S Typical Style" because he scents plagiarists, pirates, copycats. TIME has created no set, wooden "style," which could be aped, but instead strives toward that future medium of expression in which words shall be best fitted to deeds. TIME welcomes progress-by whomever made-toward this goal...