Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it contribute funds toward an international house of chemistry, proposed as a centenary memorial to Marcellin Pierre Eugene Berthelot, French chemist and politician, successor to Louis Pasteur as per- petual secretary of the Academy of Sciences. Reason: The request had come, through governmental channels; the American Chemical Society believed that any centralization of world science should be initiated by scientific societies...
...strange soil and seas. Brown natives on lonely wastes and swarthy fishermen on desolate coasts looked upward from their fires and nets to see the huge hummingbird dart eastward overhead. Edward F. Schlee, Detroit oil man, and William S. Brock, onetime air mail pilot, drove the Pride of Detroit toward the glory of circling the world in record time. The previous record made by airplane, train and boat: 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes...
...Another 500 miles was behind the Pride of Detroit as she coasted to earth at Stamboul, Turkey. Said the military commandant at the field: "In the name of Turkish aviators of the future I greet and welcome you . . . ." Pleased with this courtesy the aviators prepared to hasten on toward Aleppo. Official Turkey ordered them to wait while the red tape was unwound from an official permit to fly over Turkish territory...
...Over her the Most Rev. Francis Mostyn, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff, was praying, asking a blessing. On the ship he sprinkled holy water. Soon rose the motor roar which drowns goodbys on flying fields. The St. Raphael moved, gained speed, just averted disaster at the takeoff, and disappeared toward the Atlantic...
...Last week Flyers James Medcalf and Terry Tully jumped up from London, Ontario, and pointed their ship, the Sir John Carling, toward London, England. They flew for five hours, fought storms, returned to London, Ontario...