Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson combination has shown in the past two games that it can present a concerted attack on occasions. If the team can play throughout the game as it did toward the close of the two previous ones, Toronto will have no chance to let up during the contest as it did in the previous game...
...tiny speedboat that darted like a water flea after the large ship? Swedes recall that the speedboat drew alongside the Principe Alfonso which, churning the water to soapy froth, stopped. A box was lifted aboard with pulleys. The Principe Alfonso moved on. The impertinent little speedboat shot back toward Stockholm. What did it all mean...
...What is Cyril doing? He is not exactly doing-he is making propaganda. Only little pamphlets! Books are impossible-he can not get them into Russia. . . . We are good friends. Very often I go to see him and explain my ideas. He does not go so far toward Spirituality as I do-but more or less. He is more anxious to make propaganda and tell the people he is Tsar...
Also, looking toward the deeper study of diplomacy, Myron Charles Taylor* gave $1,500,000 to his alma mater, the Cornell Law School, to build a Myron Taylor Hall for law students & faculty. Wrote he, in making the gift: "It is well to stress the importance of the study of languages . . . particularly French, which is the diplomatic language of the world, and, if possible, Italian and Spanish. . . . It is to be hoped that ultimately such a centre or college of law will be developed and will embody within its courses in international law one of diplomacy, that it may permit...
Aviation. To the pilot, aviation may mean a job, a salary. To the pedestrian, it may mean dark specks droning toward the horizon. To the entrepreneur, it means stocks, incorporations, earnings, mergers, an infant industry for skilled hands to shape. One such shaping took form last week with the incorporation of United Aircraft and Transport, Inc. A holding company, it will own all stock of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. (Wasp, Hornet motors), Chance Vought Corp. (Corsair planes) Boeing Airplane and Transport Co. (manufacturers and transporters). Capitalization: 1,000,000 shares 6% preferred, par $50; 2,500,000 common. President: William...