Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council sent a telegram to Prime Minister Augustine Valdemaras of Lithuania, requesting him to appear before it and explain why he has not permitted steps to be taken toward easing the perpetual Lithuano-Polish crisis in accordance with the plan approved by the Council when it last sat (TIME...
...Jewish Telegraph Agency alarmed from Jerusalem: "A force led by Sheik Ed Dowilsh with 1,400 camels is marching toward Irak. . . . Twenty-two [British] airplanes and seven tanks have been despatched to the frontier of Transjordania to protect the territory from . . . Ibn Saud...
Very typical are these lines. Miss Bell was loyal to a fault toward those she trusted, womanly, and at times highly emotional. She came upon the scene in Irak after the tumult and the shooting had begun to wane; but the present prevailing peace in King Faisal's realm is very largely founded on her broad conciliatory liaison work. Dozens of the letters are pure feminine chatter, but it is never idle chatter...
...triumph, the moment in the fable of success in which he had demonstrated to all the world how far he had come from his job as chore boy. Success did not mean relaxation. Asked when he will retire, he jerks his thumb toward the ground "When I'm down there. . . . Wouldn't last long if I sat down and stopped...
...attention of His Holiness was not, however, directed entirely toward the actions of his U. S. servants. He spoke to 1,000 new members of the Catholic Youth Associations on the subject of athletic and other amusements, saying in heartfelt manner: "Amusements serve to refresh the spirit which otherwise would be too strained and unable to perform with satisfactory capacity its high noble functions...