Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across Belgium, over the German frontier, into the Saar, halted and thrown back in the Battle of the Bulge, surging forward again in the great Rhine offensive, the tanks and infantrymen of Bradley's great armies rolled on. On May 8, 1945, the tall, spare infantryman said to one of his staff: "With hostilities over, now our troubles really begin...
Wyndol Gray, captain of the '45-46 Varsity quintet and former all-America forward at Bowling Green resigned yesterday his recently acquired position on the Eastern All-Star squad and will not play in tomorrow's game at Madison Square Garden...
...movement was initiated by a petition circulated in the Yard at the beginning of the term and presented to the Student Council for action. After considering the matter, the Council voted to forward the request to the University with its approval, adding a statement emphasizing the extraordinary nature of the predicament which, it stated, the Yard dwellers faced...
...surgeons up front to do on-the-spot operations, decreasing the chances of blindness from eye wounds from World War I's seven in ten to three in ten. Tommies who wore glasses were equipped with two pairs (tankmen got three); repair units were set up in forward areas...
...Another forward step is the improved blind landing equipment which CAA is now installing at 100 commercial airports. At present, pilots bring their planes down out of the murk with the help of a simple four-directional radio range, radio position markers and the plane's own instruments...