Word: forward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice Reed remarked on the advantageous setting of this student conference, carried forward by the daily publications of three of the nation's leading universities. These colleges make possible what the Justice termed "a broad, general knowledge of economic and political developments, which enables one to gain the greatest benefit from this mingling of national figures and college undergraduates...
...Crimson wrestlers have reported to the Harvard Club. John Harkness will start as forward tomorrow, while Henry Kidder will replace Kennedy in the backfield...
...hiring of Hicks is perhaps the most positive academic step that the University has taken forward this year. It tears away the shirt of jingoistic hysteria which covers the breast of every unenlightened politicians. It establishes the worthy principle of hiring teachers who openly admit their radicalism and shames men who, while propagandizing in their classrooms, try to conceal their political sentiments. Recognizing Marxism as a serious and possibly worthwhile approach to literature and history is an intelligent action that cannot be successfully assailed by uninformed and fanatic political reactionaries such as exist in the Massachusetts legislature...
When an industry wants to put its best foot forward, it is likely to hire a man with a knack for public relations. This man the newspapers will refer to as TSAR. Prime examples: the cinema industry's Hays, baseball's Landis...
Last week hundreds of Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket holders were looking forward to rich rewards from the Grand National. In Midland, Ont.. a pious Protestant churchgoer named Mrs. Charles Fenton tore up a ticket worth $4,950. Her husband had bought it in her name. Mrs. Fenton thought this was plain gambling, and Mr. Fenton, gloomily agreeing, spent some of his own hard-earned money cabling the Irish Sweepstakes to keep...