Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upon row, people leaned forward to catch every word, feverishly scribbling in their notebooks. The mesmerizing drone of the theologian lifted them, trance-like, beyond the everyday world of corporeal men and concrete things. It carried them high, high into the tenuous stratosphere of abstraction, where the earth below could be glimpsed only briefly and dimly, as the ponderous metaphysical clouds parted for a moment, then coalesced in still thicker obscurity. Through the shadowy haze, however, they could sense the mammoth struggles that the voice affirmed were raging all around them. From far off they could sometimes catch the sound...
Those earnestly seeking to improve and modernize Cambridge should attack all instances of opportunism and profiteering which obstruct progress more than the tenacity of slum areas or the shortage of funds. To move forward, Cambridge must undermine all such schemes to profit by her desire...
...Charlie Wilson's New Look lacked forward vision. He had little if any use for the basic research that makes possible the weapons of the future. Why is the grass green and the sky blue? Why do fried potatoes turn brown? What is the molecular secret of life itself? The answers could not shoot and therefore should not be bought with defense dollars. Why would anyone want to go to the moon? An outer-space satellite could not destroy a target and should therefore have a relatively low priority. In 1957, for example, Wilson's research and development...
...last week some 10,000 FM fans were well aware of the Rothmans, and joining them were many of the estimated 70,000 AM set owners scattered across the basin to El Paso. Looking forward at last to some generously profitable years, Max was grateful to his FM followers. "Now everybody seems proud of the station," said he. "Possessive even...
...reconstruction work, one of several building projects planned, will enable the Medical School "to achieve greater ability to carry forward research in the biology of disease," according to Dr. George P. Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine...