Word: fore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided he feloniously "attempted to evade & defeat" payment during three of those years. Now he was to be sentenced. As a concession to the solemnity of the occasion he had left off his jewelry, was wearing a comparatively sober pinchback suit of blue. He fondled a bandaged right fore-(trigger)-finger, sucked and sucked on his coughdrop...
...West, but the Civil War was 15 months old before he did any fighting in it. A capable executive, he was found useful in a quartermaster's job. But when at last he got a command with the Army of the Cumberland he came steadily, quickly to the fore. At Perryville, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge he won his spurs, came under the notice of Grant. When Grant was put in command of the Army of the Potomac he sent for Sheridan. President Lincoln and Secretary of War Stanton looked hard at him, were not very impressed with what they...
...newest and best-known crusader in this cause is the magazine called Ballyhoo, which for several months now has been breaking in upon the great American devotional rites like a muddy dog at a church wedding. All the advertisements both fore and aft of the main matter are insidious variations on insidious originals. Regrettably, the editors have let their youthful spirits run away with them a bit in the main portion of the magazine, where they print a sprinkling of jokes and drawings that even a college humorous publication would have the taste to omit. Whether willingly...
...Ordinarily they would have seen a somewhat annoyed pilot working the controls to compensate for the shift of weight caused by their movements. Instead they saw Pilot Ralph G. Lockwood comfortably sitting with legs crossed, hands clasped behind his head. The control stick in front of him moved slightly fore & aft, side-to-side; the rudder pedals budged now and then. The big Condor flew smoothly on, directly over a predetermined spot, taking its directions from a small box under the pilot's seat-the Sperry automatic pilot, a device not unlike the Sperry gyroscope which guides vessels...
...single control stick or "joystick" (named, by doubtful legend, after one Joyce) is a lever which the pilot moves fore & aft to nose the plane down or up; side to side to make the plane bank. All standard planes are operated by joystick, except transports and heavy cabin planes which have Deperdussin ("Dep"). (All planes are steered left & right by pedals.) In Washington last week the U. S. Court of Claims heard arguments of a Frenchman who alleges that every joystick built in the U. S. is an infringement on his patents...