Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Downey and captain Bill Hickey, who usually plays forward, will fill guard vacancies. Red Barry and Jerry Murphy will operate in the forward positions while John Stevenson will be in his regular center slot...
Perhaps the tone of the film may be summed up in the scene where the wagon train starts across the great prairies. A bearded pioneer splits the air with a cry, and his covered wagon charges forward; the second Conestoga lurches ahead into the sunset. Then Hope hollers, and his team sprints forward. Too bad he forgets to hitch them to the wagon...
...congress moved smoothly ahead on schedule. Delegates applauded on cue, unanimously approved one after another of the government's proposals (including the one to increase the population). Looking forward to unsettled times, the Bulgarian Union of Sports denounced tennis as a bourgeois pastime; henceforth, sportsmen will be instructed in "shooting competitions, handling and unmounting of different weapons, the use of ordinary and automatic rifles, pistols and machine guns...
...Handy was 20, he helped develop the American crawl. Reading a Sydney newspaper's fuzzy description of the Australian crawl, with which Down Under swimmers were then smashing records, young Handy tried to imitate the stroke he had never seen. The Australian crawl was such a sensational step forward that some kind of American imitation was inevitable; other Americans besides Jam Handy tried their own adaptations. The U.S. style that finally emerged combined the double over-arm stroke with a loose-leg kick from the hips instead of the knees. Using it, Handy won three national free-style championships...
...book immediately became an important historical source. It purported to be a diary kept during the winter of 1860-61, in Washington. The story of Douglas' behavior at Lincoln's inaugural (Lincoln had no place to lay his hat, fidgeted with it, until Douglas stepped forward and took it from him) is one of the many familiar stories that come from this famous diary. James Ford Rhodes, Carl Sandburg, Ida Tarbell and other Lincoln biographers accepted the book as genuine ; only the biographer of Charles Sumner doubted its authenticity...