Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successor at FAO, Norris E. Dodd, retiring U.S. Under Secretary of Agriculture, was ready to take over where Sir John was leaving off. Said Dodd: "My great hope is that ... I can march forward on the path he marked...
...54th lap, his Ferrari skidded out of control. In the stands by the waterfront, Monte Carlo's glossy postwar idlers gasped and screamed. Igor's auto spun crazily and came to rest, backside-forward against a pile of straw. Slowly, with compressed lips, the prince emerged from his wrecked car, walked with dignity into the bar of the Hotel de Paris and was not seen again...
Most Foges enterprises make money, but Future is still in the red, thanks to its printing costs - $1.20 a copy. Nevertheless, it will grow from a quarterly to eight issues this year, go monthly in 1949. It cannot look forward yet to printing in England, but it is getting closer to home. Last week, things being what they were in Czechoslovakia, Foges & Co. planned to transfer their production to Holland...
...Camel-Fox Movietone News and Du Mont's Tele-News) offer first-rate, up-to-the-minute newsreels. But mostly spot news pickups are only a lick & a promise. Exception: such foreseeable events as political rallies where the cameras, being set in place, catch unscheduled incidents. Television looks forward to the summer's forthcoming conventions, which will be carried by 18 stations (LIFE will cover with NBC), to do for their industry what the 1924 conventions did for radio...
...Veblen described them (in The Higher Learning in America) as "Captains of Erudition" whose function was to accustom the sons of rough "Captains of Industry" to "genteel solemnities" and urbane forms of "dissipation." Earnest economists who had written cumbersome tomes of unintelligible prose positively hated Veblen when he leaned forward, assumed a poker face and gravely asked them: "If we are getting restless under the taxonomy of a monocotyledonous wage doctrine and a cryptogamic theory of interest, with involute, loculicidal, tomentous and moniliform variants, what is the cytoplasm, centrosome, or karyokinetic process to which we may turn...