Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...include among my suggestions the proposal to combine the last two years of high school with the first two of college and give A.B.S at that point. That proposal is not mine but is put forward by President Hutchins [University of Chicago]. I am strongly opposed to it. I mentioned it in the book only to hold it up to scorn. After severely denouncing the present deplorable conditions in high schools, I said this plan would only add two more years to be conducted under the same conditions...
Exactly a year and a day after the gang's escape in Greenfield, James Dalhover, its "trigger man," walked into Dakin's store for the second time, to pick up his merchandise. Said he: "Where's the stuff I ordered?" The clerk who stepped forward was not Hurd but Walter Walsh, a crack G-man and specialist in trick shots. Walsh's job was to signal 13 more G-men, 30 Bangor patrolmen and a squad of Indiana and Maine State troopers posted outside the store as soon as a member of the Brady gang came...
...have devoted the last 30 years of my life to the cause of co-operation between Japan and China," said General Matsui, 60. "A Chinese maxim says that 'When you are convinced of righteousness, go straight forward, even against millions of opponents.' This exactly describes our present convictions. . . . Even now my heart is full of zeal to realize the salvation of the 400,000,000 people of China rather than to chastise...
Then in the final quarter, the Crimson picked up its heels. Showing the best stuff they have ever displayed as a group the forward line of Howie Mendel, Arthur Page, Frank Harnden, Tom Motley and Johansen went to town. Mendel opened up the defense with long passes down wind. Harnden repeatedly stole the ball in the Green field to set up plays. Johansen put on added bursts of speed and twice more beat the Green goalie...
...left, Howie Mendel may come in from the wing to let the offense make better use of his hard shot and at the same time give Arthur Page, a speedy forward, a place on the starting line at left outside...