Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard announced plans for an international debate against a team to be composed of students from three English universities. The subject to be debated (in Cambridge, Mass.): "Resolved, That the only effective attitude toward war is an uncompromising "pacifism" Harvard will take the affirmative...
With the Civil War fading into legend, the ordinary northern U. S. citizen takes a sentimental attitude toward the South. It is the land of sleepy, gentle plantations. There Cotton is King; white men are colonels; lazy colored men lie on their backs and croon "Massa's in de col', col' groun'" up at a beautiful orange moon; and colored mammies are kissing babies & making pancakes. That conception received last week a rude jolt from Dr. Julius Klein, able chief of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. At Memphis, Mr. Klein delivered...
When questioned concerning some of the more important questions which were raised at the conference Professor Wilson quoted from an article which appeared in the New Republic on October 5, by Herbert Croly, editor of that magazine. "A case in point was the attitude of the conference toward the question of feeding the inhabitants of an island like Japan, who are increasing at the rate of almost 900,000 a year and who cannot, because of the policy of other Pacific nations, export in sufficient quantities either population or goods. The conference did not, of course, explicitly recommend...
...hill, the CRIMSON, intends to defend its athletic honor. Its locate has been termed effects. The Hanover press representatives undoubtedly are superior in the arts of the boy scout and campfire girl. Nevertheless even the urbanite is not bereft of all native cunning. The CRIMSON makes no promises and, toward off possible future recriminations, it has no regrets. But in the chill October twilight, then, and then only, may the woodsman, fortified with a compass and flint for igniting fires, flaunt his rural and evergreen prowess...
Probably because the Vagabond has never been there. Peru has always appealed to him as a country of romance, one of those places toward which there is the feeling. "Some day I shall go there." Perhaps the root of this feeling could be traced to the Vagabond's salad days when, in company with the vast majority of his contemporaries, he was an ardent if largely unsuccessful collector of foreign postage stamps, and spent pleasant hours gazing at brightly colored. Peruvian llamas perched precariously upon impossible rocky peaks...