Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were flying over the polar regions in the Norge, I had this fact of progress deeply impressed upon me. I had but to regard the bleak wastes of snow and ice below me to visualize the unfortunate explorers of the past. Brave men had wasted their lives in crawling toward the Pole over the ice and snow and frozen drifts of this Arctic area which we were flying over in comfort at ten times their best speed! When I considered these explorers with their dogs and sleds and years of wasted effort, I felt almost guilty because...
This plea from a man in the position of President Gray is a healthy sign in the upward growth of the country. It will not destroy all the bonds imposed by censorship, but it does show that intelligent thought and influence are being directed in the right channels toward enlightening the people, for after all, there can be no dark and dangerous sides to any questions for a truly enlightened populace...
...called. She now faces a situation economically dangerous in the extreme due fundamentally to European eleves ness in taking advantage of an American provincialism which cannot see before its nose, or rather beyond the narrow limits of the Atlantic and the Paciffe. The necessity for international point of view toward and understanding of the world problems has heretofore has little appeal to the unidealistic American. When expressed-in terms of the pocket-book it may be driven home, even to Mr. Borah...
...basic reason for the undeniable antipathy toward the Jew is the division of his loyalty between the society in which he lives and that indefinable Jewish group consiousness mentioned above. This places him apart to a certain extent from the position and duties in society of the non-Jew. One often hears the remarks at Harvard that the average Jew contributes nothing to the life of the University. He only takes. In a narrow and superficial sense this is true, and it might be applied to the average Jew and the world. But the Jew has made great contributions...
...single bee," are good listening. So are the innumerable and weird stories of lost Eldorados, which stories are adrift in every mining camp. They might even be mingled, but they should never be both mixed and then torn up into Cendrars's tense and broken diction--unsuccessful attempt toward atmosphere--with too liberal use of exclamation points...