Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general plans for the library, it is noticeable that the News has made some very unusual and hitherto unheard declarations. Few Princetonians know that their Alma Mater has long been hailed as the home of "professional football;" in fact the News doubtless occupies a position well in the forefront in bringing this fact to light. Princeton were further doubtless ignorant that the long-planned library was in danger of oblivion because of a co-existent desire for a new gymnasium in which to house its "big-time" athletes. The News may be interested to more that, despite its intimations...
...officer of the University you become one of a group with unlimited responsibility. You are in the forefront in the development of manhood. You guide the youths who in their turn inherit the position of leadership. It is up to you to keep in touch with these students--to know what they do and what they think. They have their own particular tendencies and the smart man is he who can direct the natural force and not curb nor oppose it. But first he must understand the students...
...building industry?a good barometer?has risen to the record figure of 181, taking 1930 as 100. Imports of raw materials have increased. These are all hopeful pointers." By implication Chancellor Chamberlain attributed them to his Treasury policies which he aptly summed up as "always keeping in the forefront the necessity of maintaining confidence...
...Clifford, Harvard has a chance to win world-wide fame if it can only extend its facilities. For in two of them, sanitary engineering and high voltage, members of the Engineering School staff have already done work of such a calibre that the University has been placed in the forefront of scientific progress...
...predecessor has blazed the trail for us by pointing out the dullness and the futility of trying to enunciate what is representative in the welter of student thought. We go further in maintaining that if our opinions are worth expressing, they must lead, they must be in the forefront...