Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mile-an-hour gale. About midnight the envelope of one Navy blimp began to part. Hastily the rip cord was pulled and a bagful of helium was given to the hungry wind, which dragged the sagging ship 100 yds. and cast the basket damaged to the ground. Toward dawn the nose of the other Navy blimp began to pull away. Hastily another rip cord was pulled, another bagful of helium returned to the elements...
Vera Cruz Falls. The great oil port of Mexico was captured, early in the week, and then lost to federal troops by General Jesus Maria Aguirre, who fled toward Yucatan. At Pennsylvania Military Academy, Chester, Pa., U. S. A., Cadet Leon Aguirre, doughty general's son, said: "Father can take care of himself. He is an experienced campaigner...
...rate now obtaining. Last week call money was at 8% to 12%, time loans at 7¾%, commercial paper at 5¾%, bankers' acceptances (60 days) at 3 3/8%. The Federal Reserve rediscount rate was at the very bottom of the money market, was lagging far behind the general trend toward higher and higher interest rates. Theoretically an index to prevailing conditions, the 5% rediscount rate was actually an exception to them. That is why Mr. Warburg termed the rate "grotesque . . . out of line...
...emotion?This Strange Adventure. Any woman?every woman? is the theme; but the particular woman Mrs. Rinehart chooses is a delicate soul, and what little spirit she has is crushed and twisted by circumstance. The proverbially gay '90s are sufficiently Victorian to give "Missie" a sense of duty toward her elders?always she defers to them, always she forfeits her own happiness. First there was her father upon whom she and the rest of the household danced attendance. Then there was her lonely mother?tragic fat wreck of a plump burlesque-girl. Then there was her father's excessively respectable...
...might induce him to abandon his hypocrisy and leave college. Fortunately, it will do none of these things, for the simple reason that the college man is, or should be, busy enough and sane enough to have no time for such speculations. If he reflects upon his own attitude toward his work, he passes it off with the thought that his attitude at the end of college is going to be more important to him than his undergraduate attitude. And he would be wise to spend his time in doing things to develop the former rather than waste...