Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reaped with five minutes a day under the Actinic glow? Along with William Blake's little man on the ladder reaching for the moon, the cry of the undergraduate will be "I want, I want." A set of violet rays in the squash courts could do much toward alleviating this new form of malnutrition...
That point-money, dollars, pesos-is the pivot around which President Calles has swung away from Mexican ideals of retroactive confiscation and toward U. S. ideals of justice for U. S. interests in Mexico. Once justice was done, once Lower Manhattan was appeased, it would be possible to tide over the Mexican debt payments...
Quiet, steady progress toward a wider democracy and a stronger commercial structure is now the tempo of Japanese affairs...
...These advances in science have greatly influenced the philosophic and religious thinking of the scientific man, for it is a great mistake to think the tendency of advancing science is toward materialism. Just the opposite. The repeated discoveries of new and unexpected types of phenomena in the physical world make us realize more than ever the limitations of our understanding and lead us to feel with the poet that 'As knowledge grows, from more to more will reverence in us dwell...
...provincial to think of evolution as a term applicable only to changes in living organisms. It applies equally to stars and systems of stars, to the earth, to the creatures living on the earth, to the mind of man. Sometimes these changes will be toward what we regard as perfection; sometimes in the opposite direction, but always orderly. Is there anything in this to corrupt the mind of youth...