Word: forward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of years ago this system of awarding the small minor H to those teams that defeated Yale and also won three quarters of their scheduled contests was adopted. At the time this was an intelligent forward step but with the change in the attitude of undergraduates which has taken place recently it has become completely antiquated. Today men are primarily interested in playing the game, and although the desire to win is naturally still a vital factor in all athletic encounters it is not the completely dominant one that it once...
...fancy that this is about the spot," said the leader of the dignified gentlemen, stopping in front of one of the Cecil lobby's marble pillars. And to the astonishment of foreign onlookers he seized one of the choir boys by the scruff, hustled him forward and bumped his head vigorously against the pillar. The procession moved on into the dining room, the doors were closed behind them...
...headsman that has been abolished-an antiquated relic deemed unworthy of modern, mechanistic Nationalist China. A Chinese execution is always something of a local holiday. The victim is allowed to drink his fill of rice wine until blissfully intoxicated. At the execution grounds, he kneels down, head thrust forward. Under the old regime it was the executioner's duty to take a two-handed, heavy-bladed sword, and from a comfortable stance remove the prisoner's head with one well-timed full swing. In the new order of things, prisoners' brains will be blown out by pressing...
...national force, might even lead to the establishment of an international language. British and French radio at present, however, he described as "formative." The British radio owner, for instance, has no loud speaker, no electric sets, and no choice of programs-a standard program being furnished by the government. Forward-looking Mr. Aylesworth, however, predicted an eighty million audience for his radio chain and visioned President Hoover and King George giving a joint radio address to English-speaking peoples next Thanksgiving...
...continued pounding away with an heroic beat and clung closely tot he heavy Harvard crew whose shell was noticeably lower in the waves than either, Tech or Cornell. In the final sprint Cornell could not keep up but the prow of the Tech boat riding high and clear, shot forward past amidships of the sinking Crimson shell and nearly snatched the victory from the Harvard eight...