Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begin a backswing: address the ball with a little forward movement, or waggle, and let the backswing be a natural recoil from...
...Crusader, spoke bluntly and honestly, as always. He also betrayed a personal sense of outrage and irritation. But even so he did not stir audiences. At times fewer than two or three dozen people collected to hear him speak from courthouse steps; he seemed uncomfortable as he stepped forward to shake hands. When he spoke at Cadiz, a knot of roughneck strip miners booed, and called "Throw...
Just as political dopesters look forward to primary votes as guides to the future, those who wonder about the future of Harvard education are looking forward to a local vote scheduled for next month. The issue is tutorial; the locale, the Economics department; the date, the second Tuesday in May, when a meeting of the department will vote on the question of restoring tutorial to the field of Economics...
...Marlboro, N.Y., the farmhouse of the late Frederic W. Goudy, famed designer of printing types, was put up for auction. Till the day of the sale, Goudy's family had hoped that somebody might offer to make a "shrine" of the place, but nobody had come forward. Then Ralph C. Coxhead, manufacturer of VariTyper machines (widely used by publishers whose typesetters go on strike), got the farm on an $18,000 bid. His plan: to "perpetuate it as a shrine...
...have seen no signs, however, that Harvard students approve of a compulsory tax on themselves to finance student activities. Until such a time as a large majority of students wish to be so taxed or Millionaire Alumnus X comes forward with the necessary endowment, requests from organizations for financial aid will have to be turned down. This isn't a result of the sadistic perversity of the Dean's Office. There just isn't any pot of gold buried in University Hall...