Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gale now was driving. The starboard list increased. In the dining saloon, dishes slid from the tables and chairs toppled over. Officers went about with assuring words. The passengers did not know that a number of cased automobiles had gone crashing through a partition in the hold, toward the starboard side, making matters worse.* They did not know that the stokers were working waist-deep in water, that cabin stewards were bailing there with buckets that might as well have been thimbles...
...probable that our final cost [incurred due to the War] will run well toward $100,000,000,000, or half the entire wealth of the country when we entered the conflict. . . . We should like to have our Government debts all settled, although it is probable that we could better afford to lose them than our debtors could afford not to pay them...
Outstanding are 20 Laborites and six Independents. The tendency of the Laborites is more toward Mr. Coates than Sir Joseph. Nonetheless the Government's previous majority has been destroyed, the way for dickering lies open, and many who know Sir Joseph's mastery of that art expect to see him again Prime Minister...
...when Harvard just succeeded in eking out a 4 to 0 victory. This win came at the beginning of Haughton's coaching regime, and by one move of his during the tilt, he stamped himself as a great coach. The game had been going in Harvard's favor until toward the end of the first half when E.F. Ver Wiebe '09, started a march for Harvard which seemed destined to go through for a touchdown. To the amazement of every one on the Harvard side Ver Wiebe was withdrawn when the ball reached Yale's 20 yard line...
...daily make possible clear-cut analyses or accurate exposition of the events so vitally important to many of those unable to attend in person. The cost of alteration in comparison with the confidence that the Union does not lag in the move no matter how great will be moderatement toward better press boxes...