Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having recently returned from a fact-finding tour of Europe, having made four speeches in four cities in six weeks, last week busy Mr. Hoover stopped off at a grassroots Republican Convention in Oklahoma City to sum up his proposals for getting the country on the road toward a "system of free men and private enterprise." The steps...
...largest, most powerful submarine fleet in the world. German Navy experts in the entourage of the Führer said they believed there had never been such a submarine display as Italy offered last week. One moment the sea was alive with 85 submarines advancing in nine columns toward the Conte di Cavour. Suddenly all dived, vanishing completely in 75 seconds, then eight minutes later all upped into sight still in perfect formation, and all firing their deck guns at a total of 1,000 shots per minute-pandemonium...
...Philip Fairstone, who began to stammer at 6 because hewas made to write with his right hand instead of his left, went the J. Stanley Smith trophy for most progress toward stammerless speech...
...course may be counted as one full course toward the degree of A. B. or S. B. in Harvard College...
This book is not a modern example of learned historical writing; rather it is written to be interesting and understandable to the general newspaper public. In this respect it succeeds admirably, but as such it sometimes tends toward sensationalism and over-simplification. Its main contribution, however, is that it succeeds in clarifying the recent events and reveals the fundamental issues over which each country is most concerned...