Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bewailing the encroachment of the game on the students time. Surely week ends are pleasant enough. But the fate of the game itself is bitter. Once the center of all attractions, it is being relegated to the position of a sideshow. Originally the star, it appears to be veering toward the chorus...
...portrayal of the considerably inebriated Sly is amusing to a high degree. Lastly, a word must be said for the stage settings. Extremely simple, composed largely of curtains with here and there a snatch of landscape or a facade, they are undeniably beautiful and go no little way toward carrying out the spirit in which the entire performance is conceived
...Bron, Chairman of the Amtorg Trading Corp., a Bolshevik concern trading in the U. S., declared: "Sir Henri Deterding regards the approaching tenth anniversary of the inauguration of the Soviet Government in Russia as the proper time to make still another prediction that the Soviet Union is headed toward disaster. No one taking note of Deterding's propaganda can escape the conviction that this is really the most inappropriate moment to make such a prediction...
...Toward Upper Canada crept another people, settlers from the older, lower provinces of Canada neither English-speaking nor English-thinking. Opposite the Detroit River, one of them (the Count de Cadillac) founded a trading station. French countrymen followed, settling small farms, laboring in lumber camps, infiltrating the zealously English Province of Ontario with French blood & customs...
...Pirates started their error accumulation. Louis Gehrig, New York first baseman, hit a ball into right field. Paul Waner, Pittsburgh right fielder, rushed in, attempted the physically impossible feat of reaching the ball before it fell. The ball struck the ground in front of him, bounced past, rolled toward the fence. Batter Gehrig reached third base on a hit normally good for only one base; fielder Paul Waner had started Pittsburgh on the road to ruin. In the third inning Second Baseman George Grantham kicked a grounder from Batter Koenig; Catcher Smith dropped a thrown ball from Third Baseman Traynor...