Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those without means, with the understanding that the money is to be spent purely for happiness. Toys, candy, fruit and other things dear to the heart of children are purchased with the $1 monthly allowance. To our children it is known as "The Coryell" and Friday night is looked forward...
...more dangerous to the latter than Mayor Shields was a movement going forward among the Johnstown citizens who fortnight ago spent $50,000 advertising Johnstown's woes and protesting the interference of C.I.O. Last week it was learned that a guiding spirit among these citizens was John Price Jones, famed Manhattan publicist and fundraiser. A former resident of Johnstown, he had foregone his Harvard reunion to help formulate and promulgate nationally a "Johnstown Plan," calling for a chain of citizens' committees across the land to protect the right-to-work against exponents of the right-to-strike...
...Brilliant, he first was called to the bar at the age of 19. Son of an established Liberal political family, he became Mayor of Tours after the War, slipped into his first Cabinet post under Herriot in 1924. On two subsequent occasions he was Premier for short periods, thrust forward by more prominent statesmen as a safe Middle-of-the-Roader. now again finds himself Premier for much the same reason...
...arrived 1 min. 10 sec. after the beginning of the eighth round. As Braddock took a wobbling step forward, Louis planted a right on the point of the champion's sagging jaw. The peculiar, wet-sounding detonation of what experts considered one of the hardest punches ever delivered in a prize ring told spectators on the rim of the park exactly what had happened. While Louis stood in a neutral corner, not bothering to look back. Referee Tommy Thomas counted ten over the unconscious ex-champion...
...railroads from the Aberdeen & Rockfish to the Yreka Western, all conventional locomotives have what engineers call a ''Johnson bar" -a manually-operated seven-foot steel lever which puts the locomotive either in reverse or forward motion and also controls the flow of new steam into the boilers to adjust speed. On small engines the Johnson bar causes no trouble, has been used for 50 years without improvement. When bigger engines began to appear 20 years ago, however, handling the bar became back-breaking work and the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen began agitating...