Word: fore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concern that hummed from a vast throng of medical men and their families, gathered in a penetrating rain on the White House lawn. President Coolidge was to greet them; but the miserable weather might cause aggravation of the bad cold that had kept him confined to bed the fore part of the week. There was talk of dissuading him from the ceremony. However, the rigor of the weather did not deter the President. He appeared, bundled in a great raincoat, wearing sensible rubbers. Beside him posed Mrs. Coolidge, hale, gracious, benign...
...other hand a number of Crimson athletes have come to the fore this spring who may well turn the tide of success on the New Haven cinders this afternoon. Reid, Locke, Malick, Shapico Wildes, Peet, and several others have become almost sure scorers, while veterans like Miller, Haggerty, and Pratt, and several of last year's leading Freshmen have shown constant improvement this spring...
...Conservative majority, of course, voted the bill past its second reading, a foregone conclusion. Britons, habitually close followers of their legislators, deemed this the most dynamiteful debate since the days of the great General Strike. They saw the lines of class struggle more sharply drawn than ever be fore in the House of Commons. They knew that Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill did not overstate the gravity of the coming struggle when he said, later in the week: "A battle has been joined in which we shall be fighting probably for the remainder of our lives...
...several times each week, without either one showing any marked superiority. In this afternoon's encounter over a mile and three quarter course, crew R, stroked by Willard, defeated crew S by three lengths. Beating a stroke of about 33, the newly elected captain took his eight to the fore at the start, gradually increasing the lead throughout the race...
...team filed on the platform at 7.05 o'clock and was greeted by thunderous applause. When the tumult had pub-sided the square-jawed CRIMSON coach stepped to the fore...