Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little man who cannot conceal his delight at being one of the puller-downers. An extension of the cable is tied to his bumper and presently the two Macks, looking like two obstreperous elephants, are tugging away at the stubborn wall. Heave, Heave. And HEAVE. The wall sways out toward the street and the spectators shrink back. The truck's wheels spin in a last yank...
Work would begin by negotiating a series of mutual pledges by which states would "bind themselves to abstain from a certain number of practices contrary to the interests of the community of participants" and further "bind themselves one toward the other to take up and to examine in a spirit of understanding and mutual assistance the problems and difficulties arising in their economic relations...
...Japanese it all seemed negligible compared to the slap Japan received last week when President Roosevelt announced his billion-dollar naval program (see p. 9). Must we assume," asked Tokyo's famed Asahi, "that the United States will no longer contribute toward Peace...
...Butler about a complaint by the superpatriotic State Commission of Public Safety that he was "a rabid pro-German." Despite his denial of disloyal acts, the regents that night fired him for "his attitude." Schaper's friends charged the real reason for his dismissal was not his attitude toward the War but his advocacy, as a member of the Minneapolis Charter Commission, of public ownership of the street railways. Said Pierce Butler: "We must see that sincere, loyal Americans are made instructors of our youth, and not 'blatherskites' such as this...
...college publications are over-cautious in their approach, on the other hand, if they are loath to expose existing evils or to oppose their college in matters of policy, they again lose their value. Indeed this failing, this trend toward the inconsequential, is all too manifest in contemporary college journalism...