Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor G. H. Palmer used to say, in discussing the Christian religion, that that was the one philosophy which affected every one of us and toward which all of us had to take a positive stand, either for or against. This same necessity is very nearly the case as regards the investment banking field as I doubt if there is a man who goes through Harvard College who at one time or another does not have it suggested to him that he enter the field of investment banking, or as it is perhaps better known--selling bonds. At a reunion...
...missionary spreading the gospel of abstinence among college men. The Yale Law School has been conducting a survey of court administration. Dean Hutchins, with Prof. Charles E. Clark, told the President of this work. If asked, he could have given President Hoover an illuminating account of the college attitude toward prohibition...
...motive force gliders use air currents which swell over hilly terrain. Dune country, such as that near Chicago and off the Carolinas, is best for gliding. Knolls, ranges or terraces should slope toward the prevailing wind. One knoll should be 50 to 200 feet above all. And all should be bare of poles, trees, shrubs or other obstructions...
...Daytona Beach, Fla., in front of a crowd kept in safety by marshals, some newsreel photographers pointed their cameras last week at the snouted White Triplex car roaring toward them at 202 m. p. h. over the hard sand. The car swerved. Driver Lee Bible lost control. The car somersaulted prodigiously toward the cameras. When it lay still, Driver Bible, thrown far away, and one of the photographers, a big fellow named Charles Traub, crushed by three tons of pitchpoling steel, were dead. The film of the accident, complete in Traub's camera, went out at once to Pathe...
...racing, attracting horses from famed Eastern and Southern stables, but odd things happen to horses, and many prime jockies do not ride there. Touts peddling tips are numerous and all offer the gambling tourist a sure thing on every race. Yet even touts in their surpassing wisdom disappear mysteriously toward the paddock between races to find "which ones are trying...