Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propeller pitch to 90°, which means that the blades feather (present a streamlined knife-edge to the wind), do not revolve. This is important because when a motor fails the airflow makes the dead propeller "windmill," which usually damages the disabled motor just as pushing an automobile forward with gears meshed but engine dead may strip the gears. Tried out on several military types by both army and navy, the new propeller last week won a fat contract from the Army-240 for an average price of $2,134.42 apiece...
...becomes an instant favorite with everybody, apparently because of his bugle-like voice. Across the lake from the camp John Selden (Basil Rathbone) is summering, trying to get a start on his new operetta. Chip and Selden strike up a beautiful, laughing friendship, the operetta goes forward by leaps & bounds, and when Chip's mother, Irene (Marion Claire), comes for a visit and turns out to be a singer too, the end is clearly in sight. No amount of misunderstandings can do more than postpone the inevitable scene in which Rathbone, looking slightly ashamed of himself, comes into Irene...
Whether they know him personally or not, whether they know or do not know his views and aims, or knowing approve or disapprove, Harvard students to the last man are FOR President Conant because like them he is young, like them he is eager, like them he is moving forward...
...Legionnaires crouched and climbed from rock to rock. One straightened up and plunged face down, with a bullet through his throat. Another with a broken leg tried to hop to safety, but slid off into the murk down the hillside. There were many casualties, but the Rightists pressed forward, groping almost to the muzzles of the Asturians' rifles and machine guns. Hand grenades started bursting. Men were screaming. Bayonets were used as daggers. The struggle lasted for an hour. Then the Asturians fell back into...
...Palace in the capital to hear their labor boss, large-eared, dapper Vincente Lombardo Toledano, CTM Secretary General. Shouting, waving his arms, Orator Toledano hurled imprecations at the enemies of labor. The Mexicanos were enthusiastic, but not enough to suit Toledano. Dramatically pausing, the fiery-eyed labor leader leaned forward on the rostrum to grip his listeners once more. He was going to tell them something. The Government of Mexico, his roar rose to crescendo, faces danger, immediate danger, danger of a Fascist plot-a plot in which high officials of the Government are involved...