Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sweaty horses in an arc." Time was that such a thing was true, but Jersey farmers, growing the wonderful "J.T.D." tomatoes, "bigger and better" every year, have mostly discarded horses. Where, years ago, wagon loads of 80 to 100 baskets, stretched for two miles, and slowly wended their way toward the receiving platform, now motor trucks with loads of 200 to 600 baskets occupy that length of street and "zip" to the platform, unload, "zip" away again for another load. "J.T.D." gave humanity a big lift when he brought the idea of canned soup to a reality, and both...
...Armies. Battalions of warriors streamed last week toward the tariff battle field in the U. S. Senate. Warriors bearing the scar of a hundred elections came in troops, their ammunition trains lumbered up behind them. Their lobbyist commissary workers dragged to the field the impedimenta of battle...
...bank of the river, the state owns the river bottom to the international boundary, that the state, not the power company will develop power there. In Washington Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana, prime foe of the "power trust," declared that the merger was a long step toward unified control of the power possibilities of the nation to which the people are "not only indifferent but apathetic." He added: "It is an ominous tale as well to the 40,000,000 people marketing their products through the ports of the Great Lakes and who look for speedy development...
...When a sailor can tell a passenger 'your life boat is to the right' or 'to the left,' as the case may be, it will be a long step toward preventing the likelihood of panic. Moreover, when a man knows how to swim he is much less likely to be scared out of his wits when a ship is in danger." Declaring that his own Lloyd Sabaudo Line had at once begun to teach their crews English and aquatics, Dr. Serrati intimated that all the major Italian carriers would at once follow suit. "Our crews...
...following charges: 1) aiding and abetting Convict Burns to "falsely and maliciously set himself up as a hero who was greatly wronged by his wife . . . making a hero out of a wicked and unworthy party, while well knowing the malice of said Robert E. Burns toward the plaintiff...