Word: forward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel that there must be other New Yorkers who, like ourselves, look forward with no little apprehension to the impending influx of visitors. . . . Some steps already proposed...
...Denver General Hospital he said that his name was John Bellinger, that he was 35 years old, that he was a cafe dishwasher, that he had always followed his nose until a few days before. Then he found it impossible to walk forward and, driven by an irresistible urge to walk backward, he began to follow another part of his body. Since hospital physicians found Bellinger in excellent physical health, they called in two psychiatrists...
...churned into St. Peter's Square in front of the Vatican. What brought the crowd running now was news of a second sfumata. This one, through some mischance, had been first white, then black. But the white smoke meant that there had been an election. The crowd heaved forward as an enormous cloth, bearing the arms of the papacy, was suspended from St. Peter's balcony. Above it appeared a violet-clad form-Cardinal Caccia-Dominioni. Dean of Cardinal Deacons. Into a microphone which carried his words to loudspeakers in the Square, and through Vatican Station...
...subway was first offered at public auction in 1892. Although potentially it was probably the most lucrative franchise ever offered, it drew a lone bid of $1,000, which was promptly rejected. The city thereupon decided to build the subway itself and August Belmont, then a financial outsider, came forward to act as contractor. When the line was finished in 1904, his Interborough Rapid Transit Co. secured a lease to operate...
Charley Lutz and Chet Legg appear to be Coach Fesler's nominees for the forward posts, and as usual, Homer Peabody will be at center. Lupe Lupien and Sam White are the starting guards. For the Elis, Ken Loeffler will rely on forwards Ben Sullivan and Chuck Kellogg, center Al Stevens, and guards George Page and Tom Erickson to repulse the invasion...