Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...geratest problems," said Doctor Hopkins, "which the American college faces in the present day is to preserve its function as an educational institution to an extent that shall give its men the proper outlook on life and shall steel their wills and harden their minds against the tendencies toward materialism which are bred in a period of so great economic surplus as is the present period in America...
TIME, Dec. 26, p. 11: "The Smith plan would require . . . experts to make punishments fit crimes." Has not the trend of criminological thought for at least the past 50 years been toward emphasizing the offender rather than an isolated act, the crime, in determining punishment? All recent developments in the field of penology (i.e. the indeterminate sentence, probation, parole and the reformatory) have been in this direction. Is it possible that Governor Smith's proposal, which you hailed as "a departure almost as notable in criminology as was the substitution of vaccine for leeches in the treatment of smallpox...
...following list comprises the names of the first year Law Clubs and the men who will take part in each argument. The debates, which will be the third series in which the various members of the Clubs have taken part, will be held toward the end of this month and in February. In the following list, the club which will take the part of the plaintiff is given first while the defence is second...
...gaining territorial strength at the expense of such nations as Italy. And so a flood of criticism of the answer arose in France that "painted" the foreign administration here. Unfortunately, however, this criticism was not confined to France. Bitter comments on America's "war" with Nicaragua, on her attitude toward the League, and her desire to dominate all international arrangements in which she has a part, were heard all over the world...
...turned his great, handsome face, with the magnificent chin that has just begun to gray a little, toward the window, but not before I had seen a flickering shadow of disillusionment cross it. Or could one call that shadow disillusionment...