Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toward sundown one August day Fairservis began to look for a place to camp, and spotted far in the distance what seemed to be a town. As his jeep-borne party headed toward the spot, more & more mud-brick buildings rose into view above the horizon. Shortly they stood before an imposing ruin whose walls surrounded an area of at least 30 square miles, whose buildings must have housed and served a population...
Divided Land. But while life was evolving, the earth was heating up because of the radioactivity of its stony ingredients. The stony core got hotter and so did the stone-iron mixture. Eventually the outer mixture got soft enough for the iron to trickle down toward the center. Its "fall" of several thousand miles made the earth's middle layers even hotter...
...administration's liberal outlook on class spirit isn't characteristic. Much to student annoyance. Princeton has a conservative Dean's Office that contrasts with Harvard's laissezfaire attitude toward students...
...announcing the receipt of the gift, President Conant reported that the Corporation had decided to study the entire field of applied sciences and engineering. Conant has already appointed a special committee of scientists and businessmen from outside the University to conduct this study. The group has begun its work toward the preparation of a private report for the President...
Terming himself an optimist, Whyte commended the Gestalt theory of psychology, which stresses the tendency toward completion of patterns. He prophesied a movement from the science of things as they are to the science of things as they are becoming...