Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never ceased to earmark money for the debt payment. Although its partial resumption leaves it a defaulter and thus still ineligible for further U. S. loans under the Johnson Act, consensus was that little Hungary, by stepping up alongside little Finland, had made a shrewd and timely move back toward the U. S. money market...
...Perch Leroy ("Stuff") Smith, a colored show-off who composed I'se A-muggin', a song whose lyrics consist of counting and grunting; and the clowning Riley-Farley Band which caused a minor musical epidemic in 1936 with The Music Goes Round & Around. Well on their way toward the same sort of eminence last week were six droll musicians of St. Paul, Minn., who play under the name of the Schnickelfritz Band and whose chief assets are two trunkfuls of funny hats and a large supply of wigs, beards and spectacles. Night after night people lined...
Purposes of the Guide are to steer the first year man toward those studies which have been lauded by his predecessor and to aid him in the choice of a Field of Concentration which he must face at the end of the year...
...Public Administration building will bear the name of the donor and will be in Georgian style, four stories high, and about 250 feet long and 50 feet wide. The structure will face toward Harvard Square and will extend westward approximately from the present eastern end of the Hemenway gymnasium to the triangle in front of Austin Hall...
...Montpellier, France toward the close of the 13th Century was born one Roch, son of the town's wealthy governor. Orphaned, Roch gave away his fortune, set out for Rome as a mendicant pilgrim. In town after town on the way, plagues miraculously disappeared upon his advent. But in Piacenza he fell ill himself, was expelled to a forest where he would have died save for the devoted ministrations of a dog. Roch died in his 30s, was identified by a red cross which, according to tradition, had been on his breast at birth. Roman Catholics came to believe...