Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Toward daybreak the gunmen took a grumpy departure. One of the prisoners had wriggled free, released his companions, spread the alarm. Police, detectives, Naval officials hastened to the scene. Roundabout the safe room were strewn nitroglycerine cans, percussion caps, crowbars, electric drills, gloves, an acetylene torch. The outer door of the massive safe, its lock drilled and mangled, was open. The inner door, dented, drilled, wrenched on its hinges, was shut. For three hours a safe expert knifed the steel door with an oxyacetylene torch, at last swung it open Potent though the raid had been, the $84.500 was intact...
Between the Protestants and Catholics is the Anglican Church (Protestant Episcopal in the U. S.), comparatively small (membership, some 1,250,000), comparatively poor, but with extraordinary social prestige and in an extraordinarily strategic political position. High-church Episcopalians pull toward Rome; low-church Episcopalians pull toward the other Protestant sects. An Episcopalian episode of last week showed clearly the sort of obstacle confronting the union of all brethren in Christ...
...survey made in these lectures is a guide to work and contemplation. It aims toward giving perspective. It gives a sane and modest view of man's place in the scheme. But in addition to giving a comprehensive view, the classification serves to interpret some phases of the sidereal universe in a clearer form than before...
...would be well, in view of this fact, to acquire as much information as possible about the practical workings, the advantages, and the drawbacks of the system of amateur coaching as employed in the English universities. The purpose of this article is merely to contribute certain first impressions toward the eventual body of such information...
...Bell foresees a "reconstruction of the American educational system whereby small, independent colleges will cease to exist, and their places will be taken by like institutions banded together through universities." He further stated that Harvard was one of three other universities working toward conserving "the values of the American college that once was, with all the magnificent values of the great modern university-college, in that it is experimenting with a plan through which students live in groups with scholars, but receive university classroom instruction...