Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hernando Siles of Bolivia took step after step toward war, last week, while his Foreign Minister, Tomas Manuel Elio, kept the cables hot with peace talk...
...Washington many an inquisitive glance has been cast toward the tiny, exquisite person of Mme. Katsuji Debuchi, wife of the newly appointed Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. It is known that Mme. Dubuchi in her home wears the flowered silken kimonos of Japan's ancient mode, and that her hair is often coiled intricately in fashions ordained by a remote Japanese coiffeur. Certain insufficiently informed persons deduced there from that Mme. Debuchi was an old school Japanese woman, that she opposed the modern trend of her countrywomen toward emancipation...
Since the collapse of the Empire, barely 40 years ago, the new United States of Brazil have been easily the most friendly of South American republics toward the United States of North America. Generally speaking Brazilians are proud and pleased that their Constitution, "States Rights," Congress, Cabinet, Vice-Presidency, and Presidency are all cut and fitted to the mode of Washington. Only such trifling differences exist as that each Brazilian state is represented by three Senators instead of the Washingtonian two. All too few North American school children have been taught the historic words wherewith Brazil followed the U.S. into...
...company almost immediately created and popularized Uneeda Biscuit, which, though popularly best known as one of the early examples of selling a brand name through advertising, was most important as part of a general movement toward marketing crackers and biscuits in packages instead of in bulk. The name originally proposed for Uneeda Biscuit was Uneeda Cracker; the change being made because "biscuits" seemed to rank "crackers" in popular estimation. National Biscuit is the largest biscuit manufacturer in the world, has never reported a deficit, had a net income of $13,038,000, first nine months of 1928. Its president...
...four story structure, according to an announcement given out this morning by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. Eager to avail themselves of the money now on hand, and prompted by the pressing need for better facilities for indoor sports, the authorities have decided to take this step toward replacing the antiquated Hemenway Gymnasium...