Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great. . . . The Imam droned prayers, snatches from the Koran in Arabic, sitting cross-legged near his pulpit in a long green robe and a green fez (signifying that he has made the pilgrimage to Mecca). Squatting on prayer rugs and matting, his congregation droned with him, sometimes leaning forward, touching their Korans with their foreheads. For two hours one evening last week, these prayers sounded in a brick building in Brooklyn, only full-fledged Moslem mosque in the U. S. It was the eve of Ramadan, to Mohammedans the holiest and most rigorous month in the year...
...their grip, and which now are rare occurrences, how much public health services and public hospitals have contributed to stamping out these diseases. The democracy does provide curative treatment for its citizens, and to have this care extened to wiping out disease through prevention is just one step forward in the march of our civilization...
...Looking forward toward the federal government for larger control of public health in the future, the physicians also stress the need for a reorganization of existing federal medical agencies under a single bureau in the governmental heirarchy, and that in planning out future developments in this field the work be put in the hands of experts...
...field the whole time except for a couple of laspes. It did about three times as well as Army in every department except the score. It made almost three times as many first downs, gained more than three times as much yardage, gained almost three times as much by forward passing, and gained just three times as much by intercepted passes...
...dramatic medium. And comedians are his favorite type of actors; comedy is the highest form of acting, so he says, for it's much harder to make an audience laugh than to make it cry or to thrill it. About the cleanliness of humor. Ed was serious, and leaned forward intently as he stated his views. "There's no achievement in making an audience laugh with a dirty or risque joke, because that joke depends merely upon its vulgar inferences. The true comedian, in my humble opinion, is a man who can make a gathering of people laugh with clean...