Word: forward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention of the Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee it came that unprincipled footballers have been blowing up their balls in strange shapes-with irregular snouts that might be used as handles in forward passing; with fat sides to make punts fly short and crookedly. The committee announced last week, through Chairman Edward Kimball Hall, that a new apparatus will be used in future to measure pigskins put in play. The correct football will have "a circumference of its short axis from 22 to 22½ inches (a half inch less than last year), length of long axis from...
Speaker Longworth lit a cigaret in one corner of the stand. He had seen many such ceremonies. The Coolidge Cabinet, led by Frank Billings Kellogg (who will continue as Secretary of State until the arrival of Henry Lewis Stimson) took reserved seats well forward. The Chief moved up to the rose-decked reading stand among the microphones. Chief Justice Taft, in black robes and skullcap, moved to his side. Supreme Court Clerk Elmer Cropley handed the Chief Justice a small, new Bible, ribboned to Matthew 5 (The Sermon on the Mount). It was really raining...
Consolidation. Dry organizations therefore marched forward to take up front-rank positions about the White House, close to Mr. Hoover's blue serge shoulder. Last week in Philadelphia the executive committee of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, after sending an emissary to Washington, joined its Department of Moral Welfare with 30 other temperance organizations "for a unified plan for observance of the 18th Amendment, in accordance with the wishes of the administration of President Hoover." The Anti-Saloon League was included in this Presbyterian announcement and the Presbyterians made it sound as though the political stigma that...
Springing up, he bowed deeply. The Queen bowed. The shopkeeper rushed forward nervously babbling, "I-I trust- that-that Your Majesty will pardon-all this-all this noise...
Much is being said now about the introduction of the third dimension, that of depth, into the motion picture which, in its present state of development, gives an impression only of length and breadth, with but little perspective. I look forward to seeing many productions of the new type on the screen before the end of the year, and the opportunities for further growth along this line are practically unlimited...