Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment for the President of the U. S. to make a gesture toward Europe. Franklin Roosevelt, alone in his study, pondered sending a personal message (composed for him during the afternoon by Assistant Secretary of State Berle and Chief of European Affairs Moffat), to Adolf Hitler and President Benes, copies to go to London, Paris, Warsaw, Budapest. When he had decided he sent for Secretaries Hull and Welles. They sent for 14 correspondents, who arrived in pajamas and bedslippers under their topcoats, to receive the text of President Roosevelt's world gesture...
...toward naked Montauk Point, the 190-ft. Mackay Radio tower at Napeague was flung to earth. Fishing craft were splintered, fishermen's shacks blown to flinders. Refugees huddled marooned in the brick-walled Montauk Manor on high ground. On Long Island's northerly finger the hurricane from the south made shambles of the shipyards of Greenport, unroofed a full movie theatre...
...other side of the vortex, at Long Island's western end, the violence came from the north and northwest. From Huntington to Manhassett Bay on the north shore, the Long Island Sound waterfront was smashed in. On the south shore, buildings at Jones Beach were blown toward the sea instead of back into the bays. Torrential floods halted traffic and, like most of Suffolk County to the east, 95% of Nassau County (pop. 303,000) was in darkness. Brooklyn and New York City, catching the fringe of winds which registered 120 m. p. h. in some gusts, were flooded...
...present reorganization points toward the abolition of many of these faults and failings. The most obvious step is the syllabus, which, a la History 1, contains a full outline of the year's work. With a complete picture painted in advance, the course need no longer blunder and stumble from one point to the next, and students, as well as section men, can comprehend the purpose and place of each component part as they could not in the past. Another syllabus-baby, pretty enough to be carefully nurtured in Government 1 and adopted elsewhere, is the reprinting of excerpts from...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of War Harry Woodring tonight branded Major General George Van Horn Mosely as "flagrantly disloyal" for issuing a retirement statement at Atlanta, Ga., in which he assailed administration polices and inferred that the country was headed toward a dictatorship...