Word: fores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press rushed to the fore the gaunt, sourpuss, frock-coated figure of Old Man Prohibition. One cartoon showed him with a dishonorable discharge (1933) in his pocket, squatting under an umbrella in the halls of Congress; the heading said: "Tenting on the old Camp Ground!" (see cut, p. 23). He pointedly reminded Americans of their "noble experiment." To jar further the memories of the forgetful, the New York World-Telegram began reprinting news stories of the 19205. One from Aurora, 111.: "State dry agents today stormed the home of Joseph De King, 40, after bombarding it with gas bombs, killed...
...proposals for changing the faculty tenure system would be useless in the face of wartime exigencies, the committee's primary task is to consider dividing up the full-time college year and adjusting the endangered tutorial system. Ironing out the twelve month college program will bring to the fore considerations of three symmetrical fifteen-week terms with shortened reading and exam periods, as well as a possible plan for semesters based on the quarter system. While professors and instructors alike are leaving Harvard for various war jobs, new means of continuing tutorial work becomes a first-line necessity...
Sometime around the first of July, Army officials will have the details of their announced deferment enlistment plan, of which this is an emergency fore-runner. At that time, Perkins' office in University Hall R will have the full information, and will be the agent for enlisting Harvard men in the scheme...
With her rudder jammed hard over, the Marblehead circled like a headless hen, smoke seething fore & aft. Her decks slithered with oil, water, patches of blood. Once more the ship was hit. Sky guns from the cruiser Houston winged a bomber which tried to suicide-dive the Marblehead, crashed into the water only 30 feet away...
...this well-balanced squad is Tyke Wilcox, a steady, cool golfer with more experience in match play than any Yardling in recent years, Willcox, a deadly man with his short irons and putter, is consistently in the low seventies, and seems a sure bet fore the '43 Varsity...