Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bribery plot between Mexico and U. S. Senators (TIME, Dec. 19 et seq.), approached the conclusion that Publisher Hearst was a knave or a dolt or both. Handwriting experts last week pronounced the documents, for which Publisher Hearst paid $20,000, to be inept forgeries. The evidence pointed toward the Hearst agent, Miguel Avila, as one of the forgers, though this was not proved. Publisher Hearst protested his own innocence, agreed he had been bamboozled but again insisted a bribery plot had been afoot. This time the Senators ignored Publisher Hearst...
...undeveloped that many a free man cannot earn a slave's adequate "board and keep." Commenting, the British Governor of Sierra Leone, Brig. Gen. Sir Joseph Byrne, said: "Although the freeing of the slaves is a step of great importance, it marks what is only a beginning toward the ultimate ideal of abolition of unpaid communal labor...
...horses would be disemboweled. Instead of killing the bull he would kiss it; tease the beast a little; stroke it; finally plant a caress on its cruel horns as it came plunging by. Lesser matadors at home in Spain followed anxiously the progress of their ambassador of good will toward bull fights in the foreign, unfriendly land of their Queen. Their livelihood, traditions, national sport of Spain were perhaps dependent in some small future degrees upon it. Marquez's offer to kiss bulls was received in London calmly...
...Student Council's recommendation that the University Register be published, despite the fact that delays due to fire in the press establishment in which the book was being printed will retard the appearance of the volume until the middle of February, is probably the best attitude to take toward an already tardy project. Last year there was no Register at all; this year there will apparently be one which although somewhat late in arriving will be, one hopes, at least satisfactory in other respects. The question undoubtedly may be asked as to whether a Register appearing in February...
...unstinting efforts of Mr. Ward, of the Watch and Ward Society. Leading authorities concurred last night in the belief that the recently-discovered manuscripts throw invaluable light on the social, economic, and political trend of the times, besides providing interesting material bearing on the attitude of modern youth toward education...