Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...land. Over Washington she passed and was eyed by President Coolidge, which was properly reported in boxed press notices. Manhattan viewers had themselves thrilled to vicarious trans-Atlantic flying. Baltimore loomed and was drawn away from Philadelphia and its identifying rivers, the Schuylkill and the Delaware, guided the ship toward Trenton. With Commander Rosendahl at the bridge, familiar upper-New Jersey hillets and meadows revolved like a slow treadmill, until the heterogeneous mass of the Manhattan topography was seen waiting. Manhattan-on-the-roof facetiously commented upon the alcoholic content of the ship's beverage supply. Many a snippy monoplane...
...Squadron," until, massed before the ranks of rigid "Kaydets" he places his cap over his heart while he joins his fellows in whistling taps over the departed spirit of his adversary. If the tide of victory turns against his protagonists he stands at "brace" while the grey horde sweeps toward him, feeling that if the world has not come to an end--it might as well...
Such a long look toward the future is as unexpected as it is revealing. But it is to be said in Harvard's defense that not even the original exponents of chivalry picked up their clothes without the thoughtful assistance of someone...
Government is something greater than an efficiently administered business corporation with a multitude of inactive shareholders. We support Governor Smith, above all, because of his power to reverse the present trend toward political apathy and arouse in the citizens of the United States an active intelligent interest and participation in their government...
...Justice filed a brief with the Supreme Court opposing Mme. Schwimmer's naturalization & the Circuit Court decision. Said the brief: "The fact that the applicant . . . may or may not be able or willing to bear arms is not the sole consideration. The mental attitude of the individual toward the Government and its defense, with its necessary influence on others, is a vital matter. . . . She says she has 'no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.' . . . If every citizen believed as she does and acted as she will, we would have...