Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexico City, the President said: "The Catholic clergy can resume services when they desire, the only obligation being that they obey the laws. The official attitude toward the Church will continue the same...
There are two ways of approaching a weight which you are about to lift. Willie Rohrer likes to stalk about it, eye it suspiciously. He creeps toward it, grasps it. Softly he snorts. He waits, sometimes five minutes, as though to catch gravity off its guard. Suddenly he yanks at and lifts it (a steel bar weighted at each end by iron discs) high above his head. Last week, he lifted successfully every weight he tried...
...Manger takes his burdens casually. He ambles toward the bar and, simply, lifts it. Sometimes he does not lift it much higher than his knees. In this case he puts it down, bows sadly to the audience. But if he succeeds in raising it, he holds it im mobile, and proudly, through his big nose, sniffs the stale...
Ideal would be the bank that had all deposits and no withdrawals. Utopian, of course, such an idea. Yet a long step toward it has been made in the organization of a new (as yet unnamed) trust company in Scarsdale. Unique feature of this bank will be a bill-paying service for depositors. When a bill comes to the depositor's home, it is approved, sent to the bank and paid by the bank out of the depositor's funds. Thus the depositor is saved the mental anguish of writing a check and Scarsdale tradesmen receive prompt remittances...
Earnest efforts had been made since the beginning of the century to secure funds to remedy this situation, and innumberable plans had been drawn. At last, in the early part of 1923, Mr. Edward Mallinckrodt of St. Louis gave $500,000 toward the construction of new chemical laboratories. With this gift, available, the time seemed opportune for making a determined effort to secure the funds necessary for building and endowing an entirely new plant for chemistry. Since two other departments of the University were sorely in need of better facilities for further development, it was deemed best to make...