Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wage war, with modern military equipment, on backward people"? Miss Stanton clearly thought so, and spoke like a true Daughter of the American Revolution and granddaughter of the Civil War. "The descendants of the men who drove the British from this country do not relish this lack of respect toward the dignity of the American Nation." Literary, she paraphrased Shakespeare: "Time cannot wither nor custom stale the ineptitude of many British Ambassadors to the United States...
Near Stops Landing, Miss., thousands of workers were piling sandbags on a tottering levee. The embankment gave way, many of its defenders were drowned as they scrambled toward higher land beyond. The collapse of the Stops Landing levee forced the abandonment of the town of Greenville, Miss., whose population of 15,000 had been increased by the arrival of 10,000 refugees. Hordes of Negroes clustered on the Greenville levee, 25 feet wide and three miles long. Steamers brought them tents, taking white people from the town hotels and taller houses...
...will anyone who has in the most casual manner watched the struggle of American womanhood toward Divisional Examinations differ in point of view from the esteemed "Dean". The growth is a dignified and worthy tradition of this Ecole des Femmes merits the praise of less distinguished minds than his. It is in certain minor matters that one must differ with the author of "Not Always to the Swift...
...been our intention to bring before the students, in a lecture program distinguished men on subjects of informal and general medical interest. We have endeavored in the last two years by thoughtful choice of speakers, careful selection of day and time and judicious advertising to build up toward our lectures an enthusiastic esprit de corps. The results have, we believe, repaid the efforts. Besides the reception, our program has been as follows...
...means used by uncivilized peoples to relieve overpopulation,--the natural means, one might say,--are abortion, infanticide, war, starvation, disease. They are not due solely to overpopulation and cannot be wholly abolished by birth control; but overpopulation is their chief cause, and birth control will do more toward eliminating them than any other one thing...