Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special train from Moscow rolled into the Peking railroad station one afternoon last week and stopped before a greeting committee of 1,500-odd bureaucrats. Out stepped 34 Russian ballerinas, composers and scientists and the 260-member Soviet Army Red Flag Song & Dance Ensemble. Forward rushed 150 Chinese Young Pioneers with bouquets. The two sides embraced and, led by 70 gaily clad drum dancers, marched to a large square. There, according to Radio Peking, a waiting crowd rumbled "thunderous, spontaneous cheers of 'Stalin!' and 'Mao Tse-tung!'" while speakers extolled "the most devoted friends...
Trained workers step forward, lead each newcomer off to talk over his problems, give him some Bible verses to memorize, get him to sign a card accepting Jesus as his savior. Critics say that evangelism's converts are only "Christians for a night." But within 24 hours, the "Graham team" has dispatched a letter to the nearest preacher of each convert's denominational choice with instructions to follow...
Before college football adopted some professional standards, a forward passer had to be five yards back of the line of scrimmage. Before that, two incomplete passes in a row drew a 5-yd. penalty. Nowadays, a sleight-of-hand T-quarterback may pitch right from the line of scrimmage; he may also flip four failures in a row without penalty-though his coach might have something to say about that. The new rules deliberately encourage a more open style of play, and good passers have popped up all over the football map this year. Key men in the T-formation...
Coach Bruce Munro will start Frank Davies at center forward in place of Mauricio Toro, and Craig Zane at center half in place of Alex Haegler. Both Toro and Haegler were in Cambridge Tuesday when the team played the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Davies and Zane filled in then also, and Munro was so satisfied with their play that he will go along with them today...
Arthur Sutherland, professor of Law, thought the case, "from a constitutional lawyer's point of view, is a great step forward. It comes down to this: under the interstate commerce law alone, the railroad is forbidden to put this man out of the coach. Chance made his stand on the fact that a private corporation's interfering with interstate commerce, is improper...