Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live up to Nicholas Murray Butler's requirement that education should be the "gradual adjustment to the spiritual possession of the race, with a view to realizing one's own potentialities and assisting in carrying forward that complex of ideas, acts and institutions which we call civilization," Princeton must instill in us that habit of intellectual growth, in order to improve "the big American disappointment" the man educated in the university. --The Princetonian
Backed up by the defense of Lupe Lupien and Vernon Struck, the forward Feslermen started out strong, amassing a 14 point lead over the Providence quintet by the half. Increasing their advantage in the second period, Varsity seconds with Herrick at center position kept in check an attack advanced by Burbank of the Bruins...
...have gone along all these years believing that I saw from the forward fire control of the U.S.S. Florida the surrender of the German fleet off the Firth of Forth on Nov. 21, 1918. I had a distinct recollection of shivering at four o'clock of a November morning and trying to analyze an empty feeling in my stomach as I looked down on turrets swinging menacingly toward the swift grey streaks on the horizon that were the Hindenberg, the Seydlitz, the von der Tann, etc., of the Imperial German Navy...
...shoes easily, raising huge red welts which sometimes ulcerated and always laid the soldier low for a month or more. When splashed around by shells it contaminates everything it touches for days. It is therefore more valuable for defense than offense, since it is impracticable for attackers to move forward through a mustard-shelled area. Mustard was not introduced until 1917 and comprised less than 10% of the total gas shells fired in the War. Yet it accounted for 400,000 casualties, which was one-third of the total gas casualties. It took only 60 Ib. of mustard to produce...
Hitherto undefeated and challenged by wrestlers with top-notch records, Bill Daughaday and Tudor Gardiner in the 165-pound and unlimited classes look forward to their greatest test today. Most doubtful are the outcomes of the 118-pound match in which Sears will face an Eli grappler of far greater experience and of the 175-pound contest when Lewis, who recently drew with Lacey, the Exeter champion, will oppose Jauer of the Blue...