Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After five days of earnest discussion, filled with friendly give & take, the President of the United States and the Prime Ministers of Britain and Canada came forward last week with a firm proposal on the future of The Bomb. What they said was this...
...first hearings were set for this week and President Truman, after considerable backing & filling, finally authorized all Army & Navy personnel to "come forward" with anything they might know about the military debacle. Then Committee Chairman Alben Barkley announced that all information, "whether top secret, secret, confidential or otherwise," would be available to all committee members...
...begun about a year ago, when U.S. Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, a brilliant staff man, took over the China Theater from General Joseph W. Stilwell. Its broad purpose was to give China a modern army that could meet the Japanese on equal terms. The work went forward under the title of Chinese Combat Command. It rapidly became one of the most remarkable training projects in military history...
...suffer comparison with such outstanding scat-backs as Yale's Albie Booth. Nor is he comparable to snake-hipped Red Grange. Junior carries a special kind of speed that is all his own. After a brief show of hippiness, enough to get around the end, he simply leans forward and sprouts wings. Once outside, he makes would-be tacklers look ridiculous as they try to cope with his speed, his willowy change of pace and starchy stiff arm. He has gained a grand total of 1,777 yards in his 15 games as an Army halfback-for a breath...
With the return of the Union to civilian use, the University covers another forward step in its program of reconversion. Formerly the exclusive center of all Yardling activities, the building was surrendered in June 1942 to the Naval Communications School, which moved 800 students into the Union and the Yard at that time. The closing of the Navy School, however, has again made these facilities available to the College...