Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defensive work has been stressed during the past few days, with especial effort being made to strengthen the forward defences which permitted the Bruin booters to score...
...mountain of Gual Azai. To protect the Italian forces leftward under General Santini from a flank attack, General Diamanti led 3,000 Blackshirts and an indefinite number of black-faced Askaris in a nine-mile drive round the mountain. General Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli commanding the centre moved his men forward at the same time to capture the rich Feres Mai Valley and a number of important wells. Nowhere last week did the Ethiopians fight back very hard. Safely behind the Italian lines Emperor Haile Selassie's renegade son-in-law, Ras Gugsa, strutted about in a helmet...
...perched on a winged Victory sprouting from a plinth of mottled yellow onyx. Festooned around the middle is a brightly enameled Blue Ribbon. Attached elsewhere are models of old galleons, pictures of modern liners, statues of Neptune & Amphitrite. Atop the whole confection is a winged figure called Speed lunging forward with a liner held high in his right hand, while his left straight-arms a crumpling figure called Force of the Atlantic...
Major game in the Southwest Conference was Rice v. Texas at Austin. Between halves, Jesse Jones, Governor Allred, Elliott Roosevelt put on sweaters to lead a snake dance. Distinguished by frantic forward passing, long penalties for roughing, clipping and slugging, four touchdowns in the last quarter, it ended 28-to-19, for Rice...
After three scoreless periods, a forward pass for a 70-yd. gain redeemed Carnegie Tech's record, spoiled Purdue's in the week's biggest upset...