Word: forwardly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tests unique to being a relatively inexperienced senator - and the first major party African American nominee - who won a fractious race against his party's dynastic forces and has recently dealt with the first significant poll-sliding in a career that's been defined so far by forward momentum. This is the tough stuff...
...biological anthropology at Harvard University who studies how and why the human body looks and works as it does. What determines how fast people go is their stride length - a function of how long the legs are, how powerfully they push off into a stride and how far forward the body jumps - and their stride rate, which is how fast they can propel their legs forward. While great endurance runners, get their speed from long strides, sprinters get much of their speed from a fast stride rate - and from raw power. They hit the ground harder, relative to their body...
...Looking forward, "no one can really know exactly how fast a human may be able to run," says Dennis Bramble, professor of biology at the University of Utah. Certainly, runners have been getting faster, as far as we know, but as Peter Weyand, an expert in biomechanics at Southern Methodist University, points out, our history of recorded time in sprints is relatively brief. "We have no way of knowing if humans might not have been even faster centuries or millennia ago," he says...
...hundred years ago, the New York Times described the Lily Dale Assembly, a gated compound in far western New York State, as "the most famous and aristocratic spiritualistic camp in America." Freethinking, forward-leaning, this was a place for prophets of all kinds. Susan B. Anthony visited half a dozen times; Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt came, and Harry Houdini and Mae West, and seekers from around the world looking to explore the continuity between life and what locals refer to as "so-called death...
This aspect of Obama - the promise to "break out of some of those old arguments" - speaks powerfully to many younger Americans, who have turned out in record numbers to vote and canvass for him. Obama is the first national politician to reflect their widespread feeling that time is marching forward but politics is not, that the baby boomers in the interest groups and the media are indeed trapped in a time warp, replaying their stalemated arguments year after year. The theme recurs in conversations with Obama supporters: He just feels like something...