Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mitchell is now married to a former school friend and rearing a baby daughter who traveled some 10,000 mi. during her first three months. Back in Shanghai, flying through the fogs of the Yangtzekiang, and meantime training Pilot McCleskey for the new Shanghai-Chengtu Express, he is looking forward to a vacation and home next summer...
...assessed court costs. The sentence long since served, he has turned religious, become a Christian Scientist. Last week with a pardon as a Christmas present, President Roosevelt excused Roy Olmstead from the unpaid fine and costs, restored his civil rights. At a press conference last February, the President called forward to his desk James Parks Hornaday, Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis News, and declared: "The nicest and truest thing I can say about you is that you are a gentleman of the Press." The occasion was the 50th anniversary of Hornaday's work as a newspaperman, a tribute...
...them. At halftime, they were six points behind. Then they opened up. Netting the ball from every angle on the floor, they tied the count, pushed ahead. With four minutes left, they had a margin of 11 points. Purdue woke up. Led by Captain Bob Kessler, crack left-handed forward, they snipped off the lead, drew up to one point behind. With 30 seconds to play, Purdue's forward, Jewell Young, had an easy lay-up shot. The ball rimmed the hoop three times, slithered off. A few seconds later, N. Y. U. sank a free...
...feature of most modern trucks, not because it offers any material economy at average truck speeds but simply because a pleasantly bulbous monster with plenty of chromium sells faster than a dull, angular one. Cabs are comfortable, smartly finished, scientifically ventilated, and more of them have been shoved forward over the engine. Performance has been stepped up but SAFETY is now the watchword. A good truck will stop faster than a light roadster, and while pleasure car accidents have increased nearly 60% in the past eight years, commercial vehicle accidents have risen only about 10%. Bus accidents have actually declined...
...justify his lionization and to make it permanent. As for the native Tahitians, men and women, they all demonstrate the beauty of the Polynesian physique, and, by their superb acting, the acuteness of the Polynesian intelligence. Some pungent contrasts between their savagery and our civilization are subtly brought forward by Frauchot Tone's study of their language...