Word: toward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While there is much that is praiseworthy in the Crimson's scandalized attitude toward the tutoring school business, nevertheless, in the opinion of one who has no personal or practical interest in whether such schools flourish or perish, I sincerely believe that the Crimson's campaign is predicated on the fallacy that the Schools are an evil per se and that if the schools were abolished, the stables would be cleaned...
...prize-winner, "The End of It," by Cavish Lewis, is talented and cleanly written, but runs a little thin toward the end. I found myself not caring very much whether the wanderer Morris with the deep-down eyes, who stood for integrity and adventure to the grocer's daughter, did or did not take advantage of her admiration to seduce her in his hall bed-room...
Characteristically, the German press built up a horror campaign, screaming that Polish excesses toward Germans were "increasing in an alarming manner." In the village of Altdorf, said one report, "three Germans were beaten by Poles with clubs and wire whips and injured considerably because they spoke German." German divisions were moved up to Poland's western border. On their part, the Poles ordered Polish Nazis to take off their distinctive white socks, and moved new divisions into place opposite the German Army concentrations. In Danzig itself, newspapers reported that Adolf Hitler would be made an honorary citizen...
...toward friendly peoples with an attitude of friendship; against hostile peoples we shall display a clear, decisive and resolute attitude of hostility. . . . The world must know that we shall go straight ahead tomorrow, as we did yesterday and as we always shall...
...investigator didn't reread whether or not his search bad culminated at Lampy, but set out toward Mother Advocate...