Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alone. But having polled only about 125,000 votes in both the primaries he will need a landslide among non-primary voters to pull him through to victory in November. Since fighting against long odds has always been Fiorello LaGuardia's favorite political sport, last week he looked forward to his prospects with satisfaction...
...year his accounts of the sins and the good work of His children. In Jewish synagogs at sundown, Yom Kippur ended with sermons and prayers by robed rabbis, and the blowing of the shofar by the most pious members of each congregation. Yom Kippur over, Jews looked forward to celebrating this week the Hebrew analog to Thanksgiving-the eight-day harvest festival, Succoth, in which good Jews build booths near their homes, deck them with fruits and produce, in memory of the days when Palestinians lived in open huts during their wanderings in the wilderness of Sinai...
Begun with State funds in 1927 and carried forward by Congressional appropriations, the Mount Rushmore Memorial has long been Sculptor Borglum's biggest, most continuing job, resumed every summer after winters spent on jobs in Texas and intermittent work on Georgia's Confederate Memorial (Stone Mountain) where active operations long since came to a halt. But after ten years of swinging his stocky figure in a leather sling up Mount Rushmore's cliffs, supervising workmen with jackhammers and dynamite, 66-year-old Sculptor Borglum has that memorial near completion. The only remaining Presidential head, that of Theodore...
...again without any contract at all. It was no coincidence that the Giants had just slipped into first place in the National League and the Reds had just slumped into last place. With both major leagues entering the home stretch of their pennant races and fans already looking forward to the World Series a fortnight off, owners, players, and above all, managers, were looking backward with mingled satisfaction and rue as their six-month season drew to a close...
...Moving forward simultaneously on scattered fronts, the University has pushed through one of the most extensive renovation and alteration projects over attempted over the summer. The program included reconstruction of Harvard Hall to provide a new stairway and exit from all classrooms, as well as extensive changes in Sever Hall, it was learned yesterday from Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University...