Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee on Admissions was extremely generous to hockey coach Stan Priddy this year. Among the 1,325 new students admitted this year, there were two excellent forward lines and some capable defense...
...school messenger, having loosened the offender's braces and lowered his trousers, causes him to kneel on the block. Two pre-positors then step forward and place their hands on the victim's shoulders. This is called "holding down," and is supposed to prevent the flogged one from rising to defend himself from the headmaster's assault. The school messenger now opens the door of the sixth form room, and the headmaster rustles in in his robes of office. A third prepositor goes to a cupboard, from which he takes the birch rod and ceremoniously hands...
...chalk handy and was forever getting on one knee to sketch new situations on the floor. His basic offense was a fast break that could evolve into a ripple of finger-tip passes that he called a Barrel Roll, or "a million" other combinations. Men like Macauley and Forward Joe Ossola helped make Hickey's theories work...
...feathers at the ends of its wings. They are perfect airfoils with thick leading edges and thin trailing edges. When the bird flaps its wings downward, the "prop feathers" separate, twist to assume the proper "angle of attack," and act like propeller blades. They generate a forward force that pulls the wing forward, and the bird with...
...downstroke, the wing is far forward. The bird pulls it back and up. This "rowing" motion against the air gives the bird an extra forward drive...