Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe was the possibility that the French and English people would finally say: "Dear God, if we've got to fight this war, let's do it and get it over with. . . . Too much emotionalism and too little realism are being evidenced in the U. S. toward the entire European situation...
...great difference separates the new period from the one before the World War. Citizens of that pre-War world had no knowledge of what lay ahead of them, had no historical precedent for the tragedy toward which they were moving, and even the statesmen who tried to avert it had no conception of its terrible scope. On the evening of Aug. 3, 1914, when Great Britain pondered war, Sir Edward Grey stood at the window of the Foreign Office, watching the lamps being lit in the summer dusk, and said: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall...
This solution is not idealistic. Approximations to it are now in existence at several large universities. But it is essentially long-run, and for the present, there must be definitive action which runs along a road headed toward this goal...
...year with the Reds, he brought them from the cellar to fourth place-only six games behind the pennant-winning Chicago Cubs. They might have won the pennant had not Pitcher Lee Grissom, rookie prodigy of the year before, broken his ankle in a stupid attempt at base-stealing toward the end of the season...
Finally, much to everybody's relief, a rich nymphomaniac from Manhattan takes him in hand, and Crane goes back to college with a mighty superior attitude toward freshmen...