Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hearing the woodeny familiar rattle of machine-guns nearby, seeing a glow like a petal in the sky over Birger's "Shady Rest." Carl Shelton had tried an attack. His followers, with their caps pulled down and revolvers in each hand, stalked through woods blazing with electric light toward the roadhouse from whose windows jetted rods of blue flame. The attack failed. Carl Shelton said he would get Charles Birger...
...authorities have proclaimed as a lie that paragraph in the Treaty of Versailles which holds Germany alone responsible for the War." Thus opened the preamble to a document signed last week by 1,000,000 Germans. It is a petition requesting Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann to bend every effort toward securing the establishment of an international tribunal to adjudicate War guilt...
...this juncture, when we seemed to be looking into the very abyss of death, we knelt down and with eyes toward heaven asked Divine mercy. It came. We were saved...
...Williams, Chairman of the Federal farm loan board, began the President's relief plans by starting the formation of nine cotton finance corporations to serve twelve Southern states. These corporations will have a total capitalization of $16,000,000, against which the Government will loan $160,000,000 toward the storage of cotton. Farmers may borrow nine cents a pound on properly stored staple. Next year's acreage must be curtailed and diversified with crops; other than cotton...
Once more the "club" table system, celebrated as a Harvard tradition, has made its appearance. It is the first step taken toward a remedy for the present unsatisfactory eating conditions...