Word: fores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the first run, she was ready. She was down the runway and off. Eddie Allen tucked up her legs and she whisked away from the field, slim, slick, slightly bent in her fore-and-aft line so that her nose drooped like an ant-eater's. An hour later she had landed at Muroc Lake and the Army Air Forces...
...Harvard University. That quarter-century followed the now legendary administration of Charles William Eliot, whose genius and labor transformed this institution from a relatively insignificant college to a leader in American education. President Lowell combined continued progress with the necessary stabilization and conservatism to place Harvard in the fore-front of the nation's universities. In re-emphasizing the college as the lifegiving core of the University, he raised academic standards, instituted the tutorial system and the teaching fellowships, the House plan and the integration of Freshmen. He instilled the mass of students with the will for scholastic achievement...
...nautical and of sailing ships in particular, I rise in protest against your description of the Gertrude L. Thebaut as a "full-rigged schooner" [TIME, Dec. 14]. Webster defines full-rigged as "having three or more masts, each with its full complement of square sails." As a schooner is fore-and-aft-rigged it could not conform to the requirements of this definition. A full-rigged schooner would be as anomalous as a two-legged centipede...
...Google catchphrase entered the slanguage ("Horsefeathers!" "Heebie-jeebies"; "Jeepers Creepers!" "Youse Is A Viper"; "Bus' Mah Britches!" "Time's a'wastin'!"). In the mid '30s De Beck abandoned Spark Plug, subordinated Barney, brought bodacious Hillbilly Snuffy Smith (also a slangy shorty) to the fore...
...then placed over each hold on the diagram. The tray is then balanced by means of a sliding block, and the balance point is translated by graph directly into GM. Another pair of knife edges at right angles to the first can then be used to gauge the fore-&-aft trim of the ship in precisely the same fashion...