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Word: fores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRINKS: Lee's Amendment | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Problems to Meet | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perkins Announces Special Army Enlistment Program | 6/11/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: HEROES: To Hell and Out Again | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/12/1942 | See Source »

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