Word: forward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America has decided these issues. Regardless of what party comes into power, they will have to be carried forward be cause the majority of our people want them. But they want them to work...
...long as 16. In 1933 sunspot activity suddenly turned upward after languishing near the bottom of a cycle (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933). Since then sunspots have made much news, growing bigger and more frequent, disrupting transatlantic wireless communication and fostering brilliant displays of the aurora borealis. Astronomers looked forward to a peak of activity...
...American Association for the Advancement of Science in Ottawa last week, Dr. Harlan True Stetson of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reported that the peak of the current cycle had been reached and passed in July 1937. The spots are now on the downgrade therefore, and the world can look forward to a minimum of magnetic storms and to uninterrupted radio communication for four or five more years...
...connect Manhattan Island with Long Island. Each 31 feet in diameter, the tubes are bored by great circular "shields." Like the mouth of a great pipe, the shield is forced ahead by hydraulic pressure, cutting two feet eight inches at each thrust into sub-bottom deposit. Between forward thrusts, workmen remove the muck within the shield, line each new section with cylindrical cast-iron casing. Keeping the river and its oozy bottom from rushing into the uncompleted tube is an air pressure of 28 pounds per square inch.* Air locks (pressure chambers) in concrete bulkheads permit workmen to enter...
Most exuberant metaphormix born of last week's continued market rise was voiced by Secretary of Commerce "Uncle Danny" Roper: "Now is the time for business to set its sail to the forward current and prepare for participation in the now forming upward swing...