Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explanation is simple Mr. and Mrs. Smith move with the crowd. In normal times the crowd assumes a normal attitude toward war. War is not only wrong, it is absurd. In times of stress the crowd assumes an abnoraml attitude toward war. It ceases to question. It becomes hysterical. It becomes a mob. But a mob, because it is hysterical is temporarily affected with a species of insanity. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the fire-eaters of 1927, were as insane as the responsible citizens who are parties to a lynching party. As the Black Plague formely swept...
...conclusion to be drawn from this extremely valuable study is important and of an optimistic nature. It explodes partially at least the long-standing theory that degenerate strains are invariably more prolific than classes more healthy morally and physically. In short it points toward a new method in the study of eugenics...
...opposite the funeral car in which the body of his late wife had been brought from Los Angeles, guarded by the President's trusted friend, onetime President Alvaro Obregon (TIME, June 13). The President and one-armed Veteran Fighter Obregon embraced solemnly, then boarded the funeral car, sped toward Mexico City...
Last week Mr. Lyle's attorneys declared that the infirmities of their client had caused a partial cessation of the blood circulation in his brain, this in turn causing him to act as he did toward Demonstrator William Weaver. They asked that the charges against their client be dismissed. Soon District Attorney Albert Fach announced that he was investigating the case thoroughly, intimated that he would approve dismissal...
When term classes ended last week for students of Holy Cross, Jesuit college at Worcester, Mass., a gentle-faced German student hastened to the train that would start him toward Germany. He was Anton Lang II, second son of the able Christus of the Passion Players of Oberammergau (see p. 19). At Holy Cross, Anton II had proved himself able (high marks) and entertaining (violinist with the musical clubs...