Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hoarding as obstinately as in the years of extreme crisis, 1920 and 1921. The additional fact that grain collections have considerably speeded up since the first of this year prompted Pravda to detect "a marked change for the better in the relations of the important mass of the peasantry toward Soviet methods...
Shocked by the insouciance of Mrs. Russell's "experimental" attitude toward sex, startled into realization of what polyandry might mean if honestly recognized at a co-educational institution, Students Frederick Hyslop and Frederick Joachim of the Forum went to President Glenn Frank, asked him what they had better...
...just late enough to miss the Sunday morning papers and in time to give the reporters a full day to write a florid account of the event for Monday's packets, Mlle. Roseray waded into a small and shallow Central Park pond, splashed. A man dashed, fully garbed, toward the floundering female, who struggled away from him through the broken ice. "Mister, Mister, let me alone," she cried, but eventually permitted herself to be taken to the Lexington Avenue Hospital. Here, Mlle. Roseray was treated by a Dr. Martin J. Blank, who, despite his name, was no party...
...noise made by the dogs was loud and horrible. A small, stupid child, like many who attended the dog show, reached out a paw toward a vast belligerent St. Bernard who was lounging in his sawdust covered stall, swathed in a towel lest the slobber from his mouth should stain his sleek and tonsured fur. The St. Bernard lurched bellowing at the child; a collie barked at the St. Bernard; an Airedale yelped at the collie; soon, all the dogs were in a noisy fury. The people whose business it was to care for the dogs were never disconcerted; they...
...North Bergen, N. J., six dogs led by one "Wolfe," espied William Kendy, eight years old, with several companions. When one of these companions threw a stone toward them the dogs loped toward their assailants. The assailants ran away except for William Kendy who fell down. The six dogs quickly pounced upon him, bit him twenty bloody times; then, when policemen came in answer to his screech-ings, loped away...