Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...super-government of businessmen to rescue Chicago from its mire of municipal debt came a step closer last week with the selection of an advisory commission of 27 bankers, lawyers, merchants to serve as experts in this crisis. The movement toward such an organization of potent citizens has been taking shape for the last six months (TIME...
...also a free sovereign, he was returning to discuss with Mexico's President Portes Gil the possible soothing of those troubles. Probably the Archbishop and the Ambassador talked. Possibly the Ambassador, as a U. S. Statesman, said things which pleased the Archbishop about the U. S. attitude toward the Church-and-State problem. Further assurance of significant train-talk was the fact that at San Antonio Mr. Morrow stopped over, allowed the Prelate to reach Mexico City twelve hours before...
...tiny hamlets of Campitello. Pagani and Avino, first in the flood's path, were wiped out. Over vineyards and through forests the lava moved toward Terzigno in two grasping, fingerlike streams. The villagers, rooted to their homes, set images and holy relics on trees and vines, to face the destroyer. In little groups they knelt, praying, with priests before them intoning the Litany, Ab ira Vesnvii, liber a nos, Domine. The flood forked in two just above the village, flowed around it on both sides, moved forward and crept together slowly toward the walls. As his home crumpled and smashed...
Dead Bird. Railways, roads, steamships and sewers are signs of civilization, but they cost money. Last week, swart Ahmed Bey Zogu Mati, King of Albania, made an effective yet inexpensive gesture toward westernizing his troubled kingdom by decreeing that in future all of his subjects must give up the old Mohammedan custom of taking the name of the town or village in which they live, and adopt good European names. Setting the fashion, Albania's King dropped the village name of Mati, dropped the u from Zogu (u in Albanian means "bird") and adopted the simple, resounding title...
Getting to the moon was the object of Herr Oberth's researches. The Society considered that he had actually made progress toward ''practical interstellar navigation." The problem begins, and so far has ended, with the forces by which Earth clutches that which is its own. To escape the pull of gravity, an earthborn body would have to take off at terrific speed. Outside the earthly atmosphere, interstellar gases are so rare that they would afford no traction for an airplane's propellor, no buoyance for wings. Most scientists with lunar leanings have therefore pondered shooting themselves...