Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sepulchred within the Washington National Cathedral. Bishop James Edward Freeman made the announcement last week, together with a statement that Norman Prince's father, Frederick Henry Prince of Prides Crossing, Mass., who was mentioned for U. S. Ambassador to France (TIME, April 15), had made a "generous gift" toward the construction of a $200,000 chapel in the south choir aisle where his son will rest. Three famed dead now rest within the cathedral's gaunt unfinished walls: Woodrow Wilson, Admiral George Dewey, Melville Elijah Stone. A brave aviator, Norman Prince, after 122 aerial combats in which...
Gracious were the U. S. representatives, victory being the mother of magnanimity. Said their statement: ". . . never questioned the sincerity of Sir Hugo . . . not at all unsympathetic toward his desire . . . insisting upon property right . . . negotiations . . . uniformly pleasant . . . ability. . . integrity . . . greatest respect...
...June of the next year came a scorching day. In the morning, as usual, the dogs scampered and trotted out on the laboratory roof. Toward the end of the afternoon the doctors were summoned and there in the sunshine lay a monstrous dead bulldog, by now twice the weight of her litter mate, a dog fit for baying at enormous moons. In the burning heat her heart and lungs had failed to function for her abnormal, pituitarily overgrown body. Dead though she was, however, she had proved it possible to grow giants in a laboratory...
...exports to China were almost 50% greater than in 1927, China buying slightly more U. S. merchandise than Italy. Exports to Japan also expanded (12% over 1927), Japan outranking all the Continental countries except Germany. Chinese were enthusiastic buyers of leaf tobacco, cigarets and illuminating oil; Japan leaned toward cotton and automobiles...
With the improvement in the efficiency of such an organization, it may be that something will be actually accomplished toward the intangible goal that invites the efforts of its constituent organizations, namely, that of inciting the continual study of international affairs, with particular regard to the League of Nations and its procedure, and the promotion of international understanding...