Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After that paralyzing moment the plane gained forward momentum. Two hundred and fifty feet below, the sea looked like a huge vanilla milk-shake in a mixer. All around, for a hundred miles in any direction and for possibly 20,000 feet upward, was the hurricane. We were in the center...
...Forward, in the cockpit, the pilot and copilot were wrestling with the controls to keep the big ship's nose up. They were flying blind. The needle registering altitude bounced crazily between 200 and 800 feet. The plane was bobbing too fast for the instrument to keep up. . . . I tried to swallow but couldn't. . . . My legs were numb from the hips down, partly from the pressure of the safety belt cutting into my belly, but mostly from fear...
Barring the unexpected, both the nation and its colleges look forward to a "boom" year. National income hovers around the $200,000,000,000 a year mark, and college enrollment is at its peak. Both federal and college administrators are concerned with the problem of providing living space to satisfy the increased demand. The impact of high prices is felt as severely by the colleges as by any other group in the national structure. In Lehman Hall, Aldrich Durant and his assistant wizards grapple with the same problem that confronts the conscientious manufacturer--how to maintain the quality...
Apparently scoring the goals will not be the problem of the Crimson soccer team this year, as on this fall's forward line will be playing the high scorers of three other years. Roy Heisler, who averaged three or four a game in 1944, is back; Manny Aguirre, star of the team in 1945, has returned; and Phil Potter, last year's center forward, is now a Junior. Besides, Mac has the whole of last year's forward line and that of the there, the H.A.A. will foot the gas bills...
...celebrated an Independence Day like this one. Brazilians looked back to the day in 1822 when young Dom Pedro, the Portuguese Emperor's son, spurned the imperial decrees from Lisbon, and uttered the words "Independence or Death" that had made Brazil a free nation. The U.S. had stepped forward as the first country to recognize Brazil as a sovereign nation. After Dom Pedro and his son had come (in 1889) the Republic...