Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that knowledge that appointment was a gesture of derision toward the pretensions of that court to the highest dignity and respect...
...perpetually shifting line-up of the New Deal, one of the least permanent jobs in Washington has been the important legal post of Chief of Counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue-whose legal policies toward taxes and taxpayers have lately been increasingly stiffened and dominated by onetime Law Professor Herman Oliphant. Clarence Miles Charest, who held it in 1933, moved out to make room for Elijah Barrett Prettyman who moved out to make room for Robert Houghwout Jackson. When Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's good friend Bob Jackson was elevated to Assistant Attorney General last winter...
Britain and France, apart from their main purpose of getting technical co-operation started between their two navies-just as the British and French armies drew together in close technical cooperation during the World War-adopted toward Italy last week an attitude in which surface politeness was blended with hauteur. The great Democracies did not join Leftist Spain in crying "Pirate!" at Il Duce, indeed they carefully sent to Rome copies of every project they adopted or discussed, even held up release of one of these to the press until it could be scanned by Premier Mussolini. To most observers...
...Teacher," called a small girl in the back row. Two teachers' faces turned toward her. "May I write on the blackboard now?" Two teachers' voices answered simultaneously. "Yes," said one. "No," said the other. So last week in a little white clapboard schoolroom in Center Groton, Conn., Mrs. Hazel Bucklyn and Miss Ellen Innes vied for a $1,200 teaching...
...with a bag of oranges to break down the Indians' aloofness. Hastening her steps was the dread thought that "if people knew about what is here, they'd rush upon it and simply eat it up. ..." With a possessiveness much like that which she had formerly felt toward artists and writers, she declared fiercely: "I'd hate to have these Indians get recognition! Why, it would be the end of them!" Her first stop was at an adobe hut where a blanketed full-blooded Indian named Tony Luhan sat on a hassock beating a drum and singing...