Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill went to the President it was still short many a provision advocated by outsiders, e.g., curbs on the Senate's unlimited debate and on the strangling seniority system, and a hobble on the House Rules Committee. But it was a long step forward. Its key provisions: ¶ Reduce the crazy-quilt of standing committees from 48 to 19 in the House, from 33 to 15 in the Senate. ¶ Limit most Senators to service on two committees, most Representatives to one. ¶Registration of lobbyists, requiring them to file detailed accounts...
...funnel built into the forward part of her island had been blown across the deck. Like other vessels in the inner ring, she had been swung around so that her bow faced the detonation point. But the force which had done this had finished the Sara. The only vessel in the target array with a triple-skinned hull, she had nevertheless been ripped open below the waterline. Slowly she settled, listing ever more sharply; seven hours later the 33,000-ton carrier sank...
...great peoples, starting at different points, go forward toward the same end; these are the Russians and the Americans. The others seem to have attained the limits that nature traced for them; these two alone go forward in a race of which the eye cannot see the limits...
Preparations are going forward for the final round of this year's arguments in the Law School's traditional Ames Competition. Under the direction of Albert L. Goldman 3L, the Board of Student Advisors has set August 29 as the date for the final and three prominent federal judges have agreed to sit on the case...
Ever since Dick Harlow bade a teary farewell at the close of the 1941 season to the best Varsity line Soldiers Fields has seen in recent years--a forward wall which included such rugged characters as Club Peabody Dick Pflster, Loren MacKinney, Tom Gardiner and Vern Miller--he's been wistfully seeking its equal. To predict that this year's Beef Trust will be a replica of that famous pre-war predecessor is wishful thinking only for the most partial of Crimson rooters, but a midsummer glance at the situation has enough bright spots to lead to moderately pleasant speculation...