Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mistake. This time Soapy is running against Republican Fred Alger Jr., 45, Michigan's secretary of state and the grandson of a former governor, Russell A. Alger, who was McKinley's Secretary of War (1897-99). In Fred Alger the Republicans have put their best foot forward. He has proved himself a good vote getter in four previous statewide campaigns for political offices, and he can make a better, more forceful speech than Soapy...
...educated . . . were voicing their own defeatist skepticism about America; and listening to them in the months after the Korean intervention, one realized with dismay how little confidence there was among the forward-looking of our worthiness or our capacity to defend the freedom which we claimed as our heritage; and to rouse others to defend their freedom, if they had it, or to win it, if they lacked it, side by side with...
...dazzling dives. For a climax, he sprang one of his "inventions" that would not have been officially recognized in the Olympics. Taking off from the board, he soared and began twisting and spinning. By the time he slithered into the pool, he had executed an astonishing running double-twisting forward 1½ somersault. The five judges were properly impressed, and Skippy Browning had finished his business: he copped the title, with 202.82 points over Ohio State's Runner-Up Bob Clotworthy, with...
...ruling engine" that makes the gratings is simple, in principle. It has a moving carriage that rules each line by means of a sharp diamond chip. After the carriage has made each round trip over the grating, a screw nudges it forward one ninetieth of a hairbreadth. Then it rules another line...
...Ring (King Bros.; United Artists) is a simple, straight-forward story of racial discrimination with a harsh setting: a Los Angeles prizefight ring. A young Mexican-American with a chip on his shoulder becomes a boxer "because it pays to be somebody." He turns professional, is badly beaten in the ring, and decides to quit boxing because he comes to realize that there are better ways to fight for respect from the "Anglos...