Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Episcopal Bishop of Washington, prayed: Almighty God, for the sake of this people, and of all peoples, lift those who bear authority among us above the claims of class. . . . Make them in truth the resolute servants of the common good. Neat, grey Harry Truman, onetime Senator from Missouri, stepped forward and took the oath as Vice President...
Over the Oder? Of such incidents, of such weight and urgency was the massive Red Army offensive last week. The Russians swept forward with an impetus which no losses, no barriers had been able to brake. By this week it seemed that its momentum could not be slowed short of the banks of the Oder (see below...
...Their forward echelon is composed of Selznick, Goldwyn and International (a holding corporation for a number of the newer lone hands, such as Writer Nunnally Johnson, Director Sam Wood and Actor Gary Cooper). Other front-rankers are Hunt Stromberg, and (potentially) crack Producer-Writer-Director Preston Sturges...
Floyd Stahl's Crimson Varsity lost to the Lovell General Hospital quintet last night at Fort Devens, 65 to 38. Starring for the victors was sharpshooting forward McConnor, who scored 27 points. With Captain Mike Keene out of the lineup because of injuries, Jack Noble tallied 13 poinhts to lead the visitors...
...advanced training in the humanities, physical sciences and social sciences has always been more difficult than in the case of law, medicine, and business. The condition has been further worsened, he said, by "the unprecedented gap which is being cut by the war in the column of students marching forward year by year to become the subsequent scholars, teachers and research workers of the country...