Word: forward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rustum is bracing his feet in the sirups, holding his bow at arm's length and his fingers taut, as he watches the fight of his shaft. Isfandiyar, pierced in the eye, is sinking forward, clutching at saddle and mane. But both faces are wholly impassive; no movement of the features was necessary to the Persian mind. None was thought worthy of the dignity of painting. The-flowery meadown is merely suggested; trees, rocks and clouds are formal conventions. But the cosmic aspect of the tragedy is announced by a great burst of organge fight in the darkness...
HANOVER, N.H. Feb. 9--Coach Cowles will start a revamped team that staged an upset in the 35-25 Yale game when the whistle blows at Gambridge tomorrow night. Willie Thomas, last year's All-League forward and this year's high scorer, will be paired with Sophomore Joe Batchelder, 6 foot, 2 inch converted guard, in the fore court. Captain Hal Parachini and football's Sophomore flash Bob McLeod will held down the gurad posts, with Joe Cottone in reserve...
Abraham Lincoln once remarked that he found it easier to run the Civil War than to satisfy his political followers' ravening for postmasterships. Last summer, in a move shrewdly timed to deflate Republican campaign attacks on Farleyism, Franklin Roosevelt put forward a solution to his great predecessor's problem. By Executive Order, in Congress' absence, he snatched 13.730 first, second and third class postmasterships out of the spoils trough, providing that they should hereafter be filled by: 1) postmasters already in office, after noncompetitive civil service examinations; 2) postal employes with civil service ratings, also after noncompetitive...
...afternoon last week in a Manhattan auditorium, 200 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineering craned forward in their seats. The paper which Dr. Chauncey Guy Suits, young General Electric engineer of Schenectady, was delivering on the nature of electric welding arcs was highly technical, but the accompanying demonstration was spectacular...
Taking a definite step forward in the educational field, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia will require all candidates for Freshman scholarships to take modern scholastic aptitude and scholastic achievement tests, starting this spring...