Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggested the repeal of the corporate income tax as the initial step toward this end. "The only fair deal," he went on, "is a fair deal that allows the business man to do his job and reap his reward. I am not half as afraid of the gargantuan business as I am of the gargantuan state. You can quit General Motors but you can't quit a public health plan or compulsory education...
...course, the College wished to expand its number of scholarship awards. We would like to increase our awards to freshmen from 20 to 25 per cent of each entering class, and also to increase the aid that we can give to upperclassmen. And toward this objective we are laying long-range plans which will require the increase in scholarship endowments as well as more effective use of loans and employment...
Early one morning last week, the 1,470-ton British sloop Amethyst steamed slowly up the Yangtze toward Nanking. On her starboard hand, massed for the assault across the river, lay the Communist armies. The Amethyst, with a 17-ft. Union Jack painted on each side of her grey steel hull, plowed the yellow-silted waters with assurance, a frail symbol of waning Western power in China. The Amethyst was to stand by the Chinese capital to protect British citizens. She never made...
...faster short burst than any horse he had ever seen. No one knows exactly how much money changed hands that day on the quarter-mile match race between Stella Moore, the quarter-horse from Texas, and Olympia, the finely tempered thoroughbred. The race-track experts themselves leaned toward the quarter-horse. But tall (6 ft. 2½ in.) Fred Hooper quietly covered all bets-and saw his thoroughbred win by a neck...
...understand, from the standpoint of the Christian faith, that man cannot complete his own life, and can neither define nor fulfill the final mystery and meaning of his historical pilgrimage, is not to rob life of meaning or responsibility. The love toward God and the neighbor, which is the final virtue of the Christian life, is rooted in an humble recognition of the fragmentary character of our own wisdom, virtue and power...