Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...community expenses and public enterprises must be paid for by some one. It is generally recognized that all routine and special public undertakings are intended to be of benefit to some part of the public; therefore each member of the public should contribute, on some basis, toward payment. But the assessor, under the law, asks, not--"How much have you benefited?", but "How much can you afford to pay?" This is a policy which we would not tolerate in our private affairs: and it is not strange that the application of that policy to us in our tax-paying relation...
...keep on the inside of the circle when the hounds turn toward you. It makes your horse last longer because he has less distance to go. ¶If you override the hounds, do not tell the Master you could not hold your horse. "Simply say, 'Sorry.' . . . Remember for the rest of your hunting life that a horse you cannot hold is the poorest of excuses for overriding hounds. If one cannot control one's horse, the hunting field is no place...
...Living Corpse. In Moscow, toward the end of the 19th Century, it was a gypsy singer, her grave gypsy songs, and the sultry, southern wines which drew Fedya Protasov away from his home and a sweet wife who tried helplessly to forget him. But Fedya, despite his weak lips and wanton tastes, was not the total wreckage that he seemed. For one thing, he never took advantage of the passion innocently offered him by his beloved Masha, the gypsy. For another, he never told lies, so that rather than commit the wholesale falsification necessary to give his wife a divorce...
...Reaching toward the same physiatric goal are the private hospitals and sanatoriums organized by specialists in internal medicine, with large practices. Such is Dr. Elliott Proctor Joslin's at Boston and Dr. Orval James Cunningham's at Kansas City and Cleveland. The Cleveland institution was financed by Henry H. Timken (roller bearings...
This concert is the first held in accordance with the recent change in the policies of the Glee Club. It is offered in place of the usual Symphony Hall series. Officials of the Glee Club announced that this innovation has been inaugurated as a step toward the enlarging of the scope of the repertoire of the organization. Feeling that the more important choral works have been composed for mixed voices, the leaders believe that the accomplishment of the Glee Club will be more satisfying and natural, though the number of Symphony Hall appearances has been decreased. The club will present...