Word: toward
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...morning of "The Twelfth" found these and hundreds of others on their different moors, seated two by two in the line of grouse butts-little crescent shaped turf bunkers facing the grouse coverts. Three-quarters of a mile away the beaters started moving toward them, a line of schoolboys and gillies waving flags, beating dishpans. Crouched in the bottom of each butt was a nimble-fingered loader, ready to hand each "gun" his second weapon. Began the fastest most difficult wing shooting in the world. Flying 50 miles an hour, like rocketing black bullets, grouse zoomed straight over the butts...
Housewives who buy in the package in stead of off the carcass will be certain of cut, cleanliness and quality. And the manufacturer will have taken another step toward making the burden of salesman ship weigh even more lightly upon the retailing shoulder...
Whether the sale was a movement toward including Procter & Gamble in Standard Brands, new Morgan food-products holding company (TIME, July 1 ), was debatable because of the small percentage of Morgan ownership. Yet soap, like yeast, is undeniably distributed in cakes...
Later she showed her dingy colors by silently allowing the evidence to point toward Boyd as the murderer. When the truth threatened, she downed a dose of cyanide of potassium...
...smoke, had never been a Boy Scout. When the boys boarded the Mayor's yacht Macom for a tour of Manhattan, reporters surged around Winner Huston, confident of a "chatty" interview that would tickle their public. They were disappointed and commented on the Lindberghian attitude he maintained toward them. Asked his answer to one part of the test he calmly said, "You may not ask me that question...