Word: toward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over all the front from Luxembourg to Switzerland the German forces were ominously quiet. During the fore part of the week Allied soldiers were busy with endless patrolling, laid a few ambushes and made a few raids to get prisoners for questioning by their intelligence officers. But toward week's end came sounds from the German line that Allied officers liked less than the boom of German guns...
...governed by educational considerations. The question is not primarily one of the budget or even of justice to college teachers, but rather of how undergraduates can be given the most efficient instruction. For this reason, the best solution seems to lie in readjustment of the Administration's policy toward associate professors...
...German planes which escaped field out across the North Sea toward their German bases with British planes in machine-gunning pursuit...
...morality is not healthy"). Religious folk called him an infidel ("One world at a time," said Thoreau when a friend came to his death bed to talk about the next world). "Practical men" called him a dreamer and escapist, were annoyed at his criticism of their pioneering ("a filibustering toward heaven by the great western route"). Poets thought him too science-minded, his language too earthy. Conservatives thought his Civil Disobedience revolutionary ("I do not care to trace the course of my dollar . . . till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with. . ."). Radicals and reformers like Alcott...
...down through the annals of film history as an all-time high in Cowardly Lions. Even Judy Garland has accomplished the remarkable feat of being nice without being "sweet." A special order of orchids should go to Natalie Kalmus who handled the technicolor and nursed it one step further toward maturity...