Word: fores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scanning the bench, an inquisitive eye moving to the right, comes to rest upon a large man in the last high-backed chair. Attention is fastened by his breadth of black-gowned shoulder, breadth of fore head, breadth of jaw. Other Justices break in to ask attorneys questions, but this one sits silently intent upon the argument, his square chin cupped in his palm, his elbow propped on the table before him. His light blue eyes are small, concentrated, penetrating. His dark brown hair, quickly parted on the left, looks slightly disarranged. He is Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, the junior...
...three-power disarmament conference failed because the ground had not been prepared. . . . The cardinal weakness of that conference was that questions of naval strategy were always to the fore and emphasis on strategy always deflects policy. ... It is policy which ought first to be determined. ... If indications are given from responsible sources that in the event of constabulary action against a [Kellogg-Briand] covenant-breaking state, the navies of the two countries will act together, one area of possible conflict is greatly reduced...
...expedition was on the whole a success, as we succeeded in gathering many types of the snail which may soon be extinct, as well as others not here to fore discovered. The specimens which we brought back are now aestivating in the museum...
...this idea takes its proper grip upon the nation's populace the Tiger will have a big jump on all its competitors. As the crop of Woodrow Wilson Joneses matures this year and begins to consider which college to favor and why, the result is sure to be fore-ordained. Started off in life with such an advantage in name, all that remains is a Princeton education to insure two terms in the White House...
...after dinner speeches. Engineers are more frequently forced to face large gatherings of experts and to unfold the advantages of the plans they are submitting. The surgeon in his clinic is called upon more frequently to discourse while operating. In every profession public speaking ability has come to the fore as a primary need. Progress is the result of action, and one must often be able to speak well before others will act, or allow him to act. The Boylston and Lee Wade Competition furnishes a trial of this practical ability...