Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston I looked forward to a holiday in the U.S. His physician had urged "a month or more in a warm climate and . . . complete rest." He would soak up sunlight, brandy and cigar smoke at the Miami home of Canadian Papermaker Frank W. Clarke, his Laurentian camp host after the 1943 meeting with Franklin Roosevelt...
Last week, as retiring Walter Hoving prepared to undertake what he mysteriously described as "an amalgamation of department stores and other retail properties" outside New York, Lord & Taylor announced that plans would go forward for expansion inside the city limits. It will open ten branches in outlying metropolitan districts, a new uptown Fifth Avenue store, close to Rockefeller Center and Best & Co.'s new store. In carrying out this expansion, Dorothy Shaver will have the help of able Van Buren Sims, first vice president. What Dorothy Shaver's uptown store will look like, no outsider knows...
...Forward to Originals. Now in the reprint business "to stay," Ben Zevin plans a full-scale invasion of the "original" field next year (sample: a life of Bing Crosby, by his brother Ted; F.D.R. Speaks, edited by Ben Zevin). Most ambitious project, scheduled for 1947: a 25-lb. folio Bible designed by Bruce Rogers, No. 1 U.S. book designer, to sell for about...
Yamashita rose and marched forward. At his side an interpreter rustled a paper, read a statement which the General had prepared...
These were small signs. But in the huge, unwieldy mass of 14,300 NAMsters. any change had to come slowly. The glacier was inching forward...