Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a royal decree of spectacled Dictator-King Alexander changed the name of his country from The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, to The Kingdom of Jugoslavia. More vital to most Jugoslavians was another decree issued by King Alexander almost simultaneously. It looked forward to an imminent end of the royal dictatorship established on Christmas Day, 1928 (TIME, Jan. 14) and a return to parliamentary government. It altered the entire map of Jugoslavia by dividing the country into nine Banats or states, each Banat governed by a Banus appointed by the King. Historic names like Croatia...
...entire globe," he said, "is being embraced in a commercial order determined by physical science and obscuring for many the idea of a living God, while psychologists are putting forward insight into human behavior as the basis of a code of conduct instead of the principles derived from religion. "What manner of church is it that can appeal to souls living in this age? It is only a worshipping, teaching, practicing, creative church whose members are prepared to mark themselves off from all outsiders by a different manner of life affecting all their financial, domestic, civic and social relations, forcing...
...Gilligan is a greatly improved runner. Stepping high and shifty, the speedy Junior showed none of his former tendencies to run for the sidelines, but made straight for the holes driven through the opposing forward wall. Once across the line of scrimmage, his weaving tactics stood him in good stead. Charles Devens is a strong runner whose versatility will prove valuable. He can back, the line, run the ends, and fits into the lateral passing game well. Harper backed up the line in the usual efficient manner and seems to have more speed than last season. Mays, Sophomore flash...
Andover's score came as the direct result of two forward passes. Having been stopped dead on the one yard line in the opening period, the schoolboys early in the second canto, worked back to the 35-yard stripe. Here two passes, Brown to Kimball and Keesling to Broaca coupled with a seven yard run by the latter put the pigskin across the goal. Harvard worked some pretty laterals in the fourth period but could not get beyond the 22-yard stripe...
That the Freshman forward wall has a world of power, is shown by the fact that the Andover line bucks totaled less than twelve for a gain of practically nothing...