Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...details of the new program are now under consideration by a number of subcommittees. Many problems must be worked out, and we shall doubtless find it necessary to modify our plans in the light of experience. Especially in the management of doctorate study we shall have to work slowly toward the ideal of a more effective selection of candidates with genuinely constructive ability. The idea of professional training for education, on a graduate level and leading to distinctive degrees, is so new that we may have to wait some time before it will be welcomed by the profession...
...however, of the greater or lesser critics of things educational are going to judge this latest method of hedging the college degree by such whimsical, tenuous phenomena. They will want to know definitely whether or not this ordeal of fire really tested any ability, really helped an individual toward what might be called "sweetness" what can be called "light...
...their togas haphazard, but allowed themselves to be draped by an expert. He, deft, threw one end of the toga over their left shoulder, allowing the point to hang down in front. The major remainder of the toga was then wound about the body, toward the right, and finally disposed in graceful folds about the right arm. Soon, like so many Caesars, the good doctors strode forth, paraded through Mantua, and grouped majestically while a statue of Virgil, famed Mantuan* was unveiled...
Horace E. Dodge, Dodge Bros. (motor cars) heir, makes motor boats at Detroit. Last week, while he disported himself in the Far West (see p, 22), his company issued a statement based on information Mr. Dodge lately collected in Europe: "Since the American public has started a definite movement toward the water for recreational purposes, our [standardized] motor boat industry has grown enormously. ... Over there [Europe] the motor boat is now just what it was with us 10 or 15 years ago-a built-to-order boat." Mr. Dodge sells his motor boats as though they were motor cars...
...Toward his writing, too, he will find a reaction. Here as in England people have decided that his glamor is false; that no one, except in books for maids and butlers, was ever so gallant, arrogant, terse of speech, deep of feeling, precious of wit as Mr. Arlen's high-strung Mayfairians...