Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There came the plunge into war with Cuba, Baxter went on, which the British press applauded by praising our humanitarian sentiments, while hoping that our abandonment of isolation would bring alliance. Climax of the progress toward friendship between the nations, Baxter concluded, was Great Britain's concession in 1901, which sanctioned America's building of the Panama Canal and at the same time signified for England a diplomatic break-up with Germany...
Instead, he insists that through economic appeasement, through an extension of trade which will raise the general standard of living, the steps toward war can still be retracted. When he stated that the totalitarian states are in reality exhausting themselves while creating an illusion of strength and security, he was never on surer ground. When he described the drift to autarchy, armament, and war as a "road strewn with the wreckage of civilized man's most precious possessions", he expressed succinctly what has been said many times before, but which well deserves repetition. And when he stated that "the world...
American civilization and culture is in a transitional period, moving away from the "sensate" culture of the past four centuries, probably toward an "ideational" era closely allied to the spirit of the Middle Ages, Pitrim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, told an audience of 75 at a Council of Government Concentrators "cross-question" hour in the Union last night...
...long has been a theory of mine that it is unproductive for both democratic and dictator countries to widen the division now existing between them by emphasizing their differences, which are self-apparent. Instead of hammering away at what are regarded as irreconcilables, they could advantageously bend their energies toward solving their common problems by an attempt to re-establish good relations on a world basis...
...took all her patience. Main trouble was that, like blind people, he anticipated objects, and consistently hesitated on his third stride toward the jump. She worked out a group of signals: "come on," "ready," "gather for the jump," "hup" for the actual leap itself. Then she taught him to walk up and touch the jump with his breast to judge its height, canter down and turn, settle into his old, familiar stride again. Soon she had him doing high hurdles...