Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When passers-by commented that there wasn't a building in Cambridge high enough for the 100-foot tower, a firemen stepped forward and motioned ominously toward Memorial Hall. "You can never tell," he commented glumly...
After several years during which time the cases of more than 75 students have been studied, Professor Packard and his consultants, Dr. Rudelph Oxgood '32, both graduates of the Medical School, have concluded that one of the greatest obstacles to a student's progress toward good speech is his own lack of determined effort...
...ball finally landed almost on the goal line, and then god and the Deacons got together. instead of bouncing into the end zone the ornery pigskin went off at right angles toward the sideline, going out on the one foot mark...
Though Patriot-Pianist Paderewski has lived to see his dreams of Polish independence realized and himself a legend in the history of music, it is naturally toward his heyday, the Victorian era, that his thoughts most fondly turn. "The passing of that great period, the nineties," he muses, "brought to a close a tremendous era, a flowering of all that was most beautiful and elegant in life. We shall not see its like again...
...vast system of street cars and busses. Chief rapid transit the city proper has is furnished by its far-flung 41-year-old elevated railway system, 14 lines that creep and clang counterclockwise around the "Loop" encircling the 7 by 6-block financial and mercantile district before heading back toward the city's outskirts. Inside the "Loop," the property values are as high as the 45-story Field Building; outside they fall off just as steeply...