Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...islands and territorial seas." Since Northern Ireland is still part of the United Kingdom, those Irish who are loyal to King George considered this ultimatum highly presumptuous. For 14 years President de Valera has felt confident that partitioned Ireland will be reunited eventually and his constitution looks forward to that happy day. Until it dawns, "Eire" will be identified for legislative purposes with the present Irish Free State...
...principle of "balance-in-motion" is relatively simple. By means of electrobasographs Dr. Schwartz determined that in natural walking the big toe propels the body forward, the heel and outer margin of the middle feet merely bear weight. The heel strikes the ground first, stays there 0.4 sec. Then, 0.15 sec. after the beginning of the heel's impact, the middle foot begins a 0.4-sec. roll upon the ground. Just as the heel lifts clear, the big toe comes down for a 0.2-sec. contact. The instant the toe of one foot is ready to leave the ground...
...instituted,--the men to live in or near the Yard, to be given no more than twenty advisees a person, to have enough authority to make their influence felt, and to be paid an adequate stipend for their services. Since February the University has not budged an inch forward. But it is as true today as in the winter months that if the Freshmen are to have adequate advising, it must be done by independent faculty men, rather than by seniors more interested in their own scholastic problems than in the trials and tribulations of youngsters who follow in their...
...each dance Miss Mader performed the conventional pan (bow), lifting her arms shoulder high, thrusting her right foot forward and putting the weight on her left. A large sprinkling of Hawaiians shouted interminable hikis, the equivalent of "bravo." People who do not understand Hawaiian were most amused by Miss Mader's Roosevelt Dance which she sang in English. When the President visited Hawaii three years...
...large grew the crowd that a policeman asked who was its leader. A scrawny Negro named "Happy Heart" stepped forward, said: "Father's followers have no leader. We all work by intuition. You won't have any trouble if you just let us alone." Father Divine was taken to Felony Court, released for hearing this week upon payment of $500 bail by a follower named "St. Mary Bloom." Uptown there were more crowds and the skies rained cards printed: Your Maker and Creator Is Here. In Kingdom No. 1, Father Divine ate with his shouting followers. The homecoming...