Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After 20 minutes, Thomas Marshall's boat hove in sight, soon followed by a sister smack. The marooned ones edged warily from the sinking wings to the fuselage, from the fuselage toward the rudders. When Thomas Marshall was near enough to make himself heard he told them not to jump. They looked at shivering Mr. Kanevaros of Indiana and waited obediently until ropes were passed and they were all taken off. Pilot Dinsmore, now standing waist-deep, was the last. As the smack swung clear, the plane pulled her tail under and slid down to join the Spanish galleons...
...created by the bequest of 1000 pounds by Major William Erving '53 in 1791. Erving was a veteran of the British army, but avoided serving in the American Revolution because he was a native of Boston. After the war he lived in Jamaica Plain and turned his interests toward Harvard...
...sufficient identifying evidence to make certain Freshmen the objects of public pillory. The fact that a man is out for crew or for the Dean's List, commendable as it may be, is hardly rare enough to ensure popular fame. Nor can the publication of such criticisms go far toward breaking down any spirit of confidence which may be necessary to the functioning of the system. Had the facts been of a confessional nature, revealing characteristics hidden from the sight of all except the privileged advisor, the case would be different. Long cigarette holders and side burns are hardly secret...
Then, after exploring, for the sake of greater tolerance toward three in every hundred of his fellows, the chapter on "urnings" and "uranism" -in which the four long letters, invented or not, are as remarkable as anything that will be published this year-let the reader attend a chapter which may mightily shock and profit parents teachers, preachers, public officials and alleged adults of every sort- the chapter on "Adult Infantilism In a Nation, In an Individual, In Literature...
...moth completely unable to approach the star. Class teams this year are effecting what they have hitherto failed to bring about; the whole emphasis of the athletic director and those who are working with him is toward effectiveness tempered with sanity. When the Dartmouth published its editorial on mass meetings the same spirit was expressed. The less hysteria attached to football, the better. So, as in many other varieties of human interest, the truth of the matter seems to be that clarity begins at home. If the larger colleges of the East can maintain sobriety and sense in their athletic...