Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outside of the building is to be collegiate Gothic in design to harmonize with the rest of the campus buildings. The interior will be Elizabethan. The stage will be equipped with a view toward the possibility of using the theatre by visiting professional as well as master theatre companies...
With the great Mississippi flood of 1927 quietly seeping into the Gulf of Mexico, attention turned toward preventing the river from ever again driving valley-dwellers from their homes in hundreds of thousands. It appears certain that the levee system will continue to carry the main burden of flood prevention, but various adjuncts to it have been insistently urged...
Florence's chic ankles twinkled toward him. Her figure is svelte, lithe-though she does not dance-her voice sultry, a blues voice. At a curt nod from her the huge, perspiring black who is Miss Jones' husband snapped his hot-time jazz baton. Prince Henry hesitated, then rose, followed Florence out on the floor and black-bottomed...
Such were words spoken at Rome last week by Gino Lucetti, a youth whose bomb glanced harmlessly off the limousine of Signor Benito Mussolini (TIME, Sept. 20), as the Premier was motoring slowly toward his office in the Palazzo Chigi, Rome. Signer Lucetti, some six feet tall, but with refined, sensitive features, confessed last week in a detached monotone. Spectators noted that he had thrust sockless feet into a pair of battered shoes, wore unpressed duck trousers, a collarless shirt, a saggy coat...
Today's game will provide a stiff conditioning brush for the Crimson nine in preparation for the Yale series next week. Coach F. G. Mitchell has been shifting his lineup in the past few games, testing various combinations with an eye toward discovering the most effective alignment to send against the Blue in the impending series. The nine which will meet Tufts today is undecided. Since a left-hander, will probably be on the mound for the home team, it is possible that the Harvard mentor may decide to place G. E. Donaghy '29, a strong right-handed hiter...