Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enthusiasts were jubilant. Bold Senator Borah was on their side. Wets, too, were pleased. "To get the Prohibition issue out into the open," they said, "is the first step toward solving...
...many adverse critics, in no wise surprised by his change of nationality, hint that a certain superciliousness in his attitude toward U. S. letters caused him to feel more at home in England, where neo-literary figures abound profuse as the autumnal leaves...
...Played with steel studded wooden balls as big as baseballs. The player bowls his first ball (with an underhand, twisting throw) toward a tiny object ball. His opponent strives to bowl nearer the object ball, by shrewd control or oftener by knocking the enemy away...
...Straton's opponent on Tuesday will be Professor R. C. Givier of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Tufts College, and the question which they will argue is: "Resolved, That the growing tendency toward agnosticism is undermining our social structure." Dr. Straton will uphold the affirmative and Professor Givler will support the negative of the question. The debate will take place at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union...
Over a period of years Pathe Exchange has been collecting in its files anthropological material with a view toward the preparation of films of educational value. The aid of the Harvard Division of Anthropology has been secured in editing and titling this material and in the production of cinema reels dealing with anthropological topics. Pathe Exchange will install at the Peabody Museum apparatus to be used in this process, and will pay a staff of assistants employed to aid in the cutting and splicing of the proposed films. The material now in the possession of Pathe will be turned over...