Word: fore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respectful attention. It is her play. She it is who makes Wang Lung (Claude Rains) buy his first bit of land. Although Wang grows rich and soft as she grows sick and old, it is her death which brings Wang back to the good earth of his and her fore fathers...
...action sunk another large milestone along the way to consolidation of the country's carriers into a few strong trunk-line systems. A dozen years have passed since rail mergers came to the fore as a major problem of U. S. Transportation. At least another dozen must pass before the question can be called settled. Past milestones...
Exceptionally long, but not too difficult, was the examination in Virgil. Most difficult Caesar question: to account for the mood of exsecuturus esset in the sentence, Caesar respondit se fore aequissimum Pharniaci si quae polliceretur exsecuturus esset...
...horse originated in North America. It had four toes on its fore feet, three toes on its hind feet. Moderns speak of it as Eohippus. It stood about 16 in. high, lived some 25 million years ago. In 24,900,000 years Eohippus grew up to the size of the modern horse, went wandering across America into Asia, across Asia, down into Africa. There the Libyans tamed him. From this horse is descended the race of pure-blooded Arab horses, famed for fleetness, which Arabian breeders still guard jealously. Some of his cousins went to France, were also tamed. These...
...Forstmann is regarded as the fore most originator and maker of high-grade woolens in the U. S. He built the American Mills at Passaic, N. J., 30 years ago against the advice of experts who told him. that such woolens as his company made in Werden-on-Ruhr, Germany, could not be duplicated. He created Imperatrice and Beatrice (broadcloths) and most of the vogue-starting woolens including Marvella, Gerona, Charmeen and Chonga. He works alone in designing his fabrics and seeking colors from such sources as the plumage of birds in the Museum of Natural History. On his Kiel...