Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though these instances might seem to hint that the Great Powers have already reverted to "Secret Diplomacy," Jonkheer Loudon quickly found out that only M. Sato of Japan was willing to admit the fact. Therefore League progress toward Disarmament was again impressively halted...
...Payments toward the annual Budget quota of $ 12,000 are falling considerably behind the total marked up at this time last year, it was announced yesterday by James DeNormandie '29, chairman of the Budget Committee. With a balance of $ 4,678 to show at the end of the present period of registration, the total is several thousand dollars less than that of September...
Centralization of University athletics in the regions which, if not cis-Charles, are at least tangental to them, stopped being an idea and became a necessity when a new student attitude toward study was won. The undergraduate has little time for diversion, he never had less time to travel to it. No sport can with justice eat up two hours a day in travel and preparation. It is possible for the mountain to be deluded into going to Mahomet, but is is fanatic...
...about who would win the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills, L. I. Tilden would swing lazily through the first rounds; in the third and fourth rounds it became easier to see that he would win the last. In late afternoon matches his huge shadow would creep and flicker toward the clubhouse. By the time his opponent's shadow was in the middle of the press marquee, Tilden's shadow had gone upstairs. It was a terrifying shadow, with steps like dark lightning, enough to frighten any opponent...
...significance of Rockefeller Jr.'s choice of the Dunbar National Bank is in the long list of gifts which he has made toward the betterment of Negroes. Tuskegee, Hampton and Fiske have been given many a million; the Spelman Seminary, Negro girls' school in Atlanta, Ga., another beneficiary, gives a leading clue to Rockefeller Jr.'s largess. Rockefeller Jr.'s maternal grandmother was an eager opponent of slavery, helped form a link in the underground railway which slipped escaping slaves to freedom. Rockefeller Jr.'s mother was Laura C. Spelman; in honor of the Spelman...