Word: forward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governors in closed cars,* of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Cadets, Middies, CCC andT NYA sloshing through the deluge. Nor was it the mad tea afterwards when 3,000 visitors crammed the White House. The last act belonged to the author of the 20th Amendment which set forward this inauguration and those that will follow from March 4 to Jan. 20. Said Senator George William Norris of Nebraska: "They are all trying to blame this on me. You can't charge this up to me until after March 4 when you see what kind...
...behind them was something that could not be reached with fists, something huge and vague and sinister. He dodged that fight, paid his forfeit. Jack Dempsey was ready to fight last week because a dauntless little man with a brown mustache had come forward to champion him and thousands upon thousands of reputable New York businessmen who had been similarly terrorized and mulcted. The new champion was Thomas Edmund Dewey, 34, for 18 months the head and heart of New York City's famed Dewey racket investigation. Tweed to Walker, Ever since the State Legislature in 1853 stripped police...
President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia, said in part. "The new step forward in the administration of higher education--just announced by the College Entrance Examination Board is highly significant. Few mattes are of more significance at the moment than the selection of those students who on grounds of fitness and personality are to be preferred in choosing those for whom the college can make provision...
...establishing April scholastic aptitude tests for candidates for Freshman scholarships, Harvard has taken the lead in an educational advance of paramount importance, and it is a step forward particularly vital to Harvard herself. For with the national scholarships spreading their tentacles over a number of new states next year, the aptitude tests should considerably facilitate the choice of men for these positions...
...College can select its candidates, at least tentatively, in June, thereby adding tot he lustre of the already bright national awards. And those who fail will not have to sit around until August building castles in the air. Thus the new tests can be taken as another step forward in the educational march, and one which reflects particular credit on Harvard...