Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the Syracuse episode, Smith could and did begin to think of himself as a free agent. In 1920 he had been put forward as a perfunctory Favorite Son for the Presidential nomination, to block McAdoo. In 1924, he was a real Favorite Son, a serious contender, though the convention's fear of the Klan made him once more only an obstructionist...
...president of the American College of Surgeons, was unveiled in his presence in the Carnegie Lecture room of the Bellevue Medical College, many old and wealthy men stood by with bare heads. One of them even tried to make a speech. The people gasped when they saw him come forward. It was George F. Baker...
...Powell—'Brentano ($2.50). There is a theory, which many U. S. writers and critics clasp tightly in their teeth, that the Great American Novel will come, like young Lochinvar, out of the Great Middle West. As a result, the saga of Gopher Prairie has been rewritten backward, forward, and on the head of a pin. In its latest form it is the story, mainly, of Dorrie Shirley, a sensitive little girl who had a warm disposition, a prim and unsympathetic sister called Linda, and a grandmother called "Aunt Jule," who ran a ramshackle hotel in an Ohio village...
...contrasting the three universities instinct impels one to speak of Harvard first. Harvard men may be said to represent an ideal which the rest of the country looks forward to achieving after several centuries of intensive culture. The Harvard man is a sort of vidette of American civilization. Far in advance of the main body, he has time to contemplate the masses with sympathy and compassion. While he is tolerant of others, he scarcely expects others to understand him. He enjoys an independence of action bred of conscious superiority...
...Whithead's definition is timeless. In all ages imagination and knowledge have walked hand-in-hand, supplementing each other. Great steps forward have been made only with the cooperation of these two. Some perpetuation of this union is essential to insure the steady growth of durable work...