Word: forward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leftist advance swept forward a dozen miles on a 20-mile front, reached the strategic city of Gandesa, taken by the Rightists last spring after some of the bloodiest fighting of the war. After a terrific struggle last week, the Leftists were thrown back from the gates of Gandesa. But they claimed 5,000 Rightist prisoners, and relieved Rightist pressure in the south...
...problem. At 10:38 he heard the rustle of a rope net which police were vainly trying to anchor below him. He nipped his burning cigaret out and down, 17 floors to the street. "I've made up my mind," he cried, and jumped. The crowd shrieked, rushed forward, suddenly retreated in silence...
...ship was one he had bought for $900 at an auction six years ago. Extra fuel tanks he had installed forward of the pilot's seat, obscuring his vision so that to see where he was going he had to wiggle the ship, peer out the side windows. Expense of the trip had been $110.15-$110 for gas and oil, ten cents for chocolate bars and, for a water bottle he borrowed at Long Beach, a nickel deposit. That, of course, would be returned to him when he brought the bottle back...
...beam virtually any direction he chose. When the antenna trailed its rubber wind sock at full length, the signal was concentrated straight on the spot to which the plane's nose pointed, straight back in the opposite direction. This gave maximum performance down the two most desirable paths, forward to the next destination, back to the last point of departure. With the beam so concentrated, the 100-watt main transmitter's effective power swelled to 250 watts. When sending to a station out of the direct line of flight, reeling in the antenna changed the beam...
...Michelson, who has seen four Republican publicity ghosts come & go since he took over in his shop in 1929, denied that the free press was in peril but conceded that newspapers "love to trifle with the idea." Recalling a time when corruption of the press was common, and looking forward to a day when all newspapers would live up to the code of ethics observed by the best, Mr. Michelson mused: "But even in that better day, if it ever arrives, I darkly suspect that whenever the occasion offers, the press will rise in a body to shadowbox with...