Word: fored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steps which clarify the issue between faithful reporting and jingoism are worthwhile. Any action which brings the issue to the fore at times such as the present, when men the world over are prey to a rising tide of propaganda, has decided value--provided always that there be no misunderstanding as to motives. So long as everyone appreciates the aims of the Liberal Club in circulating its petition that the University Theatre eliminate the Hearst Metrotone News from its program, great good can be accomplished in adding yet another bit of evidence of the opinion of intelligent men and women...
...twelve-week season. The downhearted musicians refused to play for less. Conductor Issai Dobrowen, flashy young Russian Jew, pocketed the $12,000 owed him by contract and departed in March for Oslo without having raised a baton. But music-loving San Francisco, which three years ago came to the fore with a magnificent new municipal opera house, was unwilling to admit defeat...
...attack of inflammation of the brain. To help detect the earliest signs of this palsy and combat it, Dr. Abraham Maurice Ornsteen of Philadelphia offered a suggestion which anyone can try in his own living room. The suspect holds both hands before his face, with all fingers clenched except fore finger and thumb. He then rapidly pats each forefinger against each thumb. Normally, the twitching is symmetrical in the two hands. In the abnormal state "one notes a definite limitation of agility...
Those problems are brought to the fore, not through hostility to the plan itself, but because they must be appreciated and anticipated if the plan is to be successful. At the same time, the Committee's action will be valuable in the long run only insofar as each Department responds to the growing demand for introductory courses more general than technical. In the sciences in particular, a course concerned primarily with the history of science, and a study of the scientific method would be immensely valuable, the more so in a world suffering from a surfeit of loose, wishful thinking...
...status of guinea pigs in this war of the gargles but the nurses are strained to the breaking point with intricate detail. Four times a day, they must see that over thirty throats come into contact with the proper fluid. Charts, vocal instruments, and pleas all come to the fore for apparently a mistake would be fatal...