Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly thereafter, no one was left on the Committee dais except Chairman Copeland. "Will the next witness please step forward?" he asked. There was silence. Chairman Copeland looked around him. "Apparently the Committee has faded out just like these allegations have faded out." He declared the investigation ended...
...Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University has announced that it will increase or diminish (I have forgotten which) the size of its diplomas. All true friends of education will applaud this great forward step...
Reassured, the stockmarket regained all lost ground and last week pushed forward to the best levels since September 1931- just before Britain quit the gold standard. More inspiring was a sudden interest in slumbering railroad stocks, particularly those of the transcontinentals. Great Northern blossomed out as the week's second most active stock on the New York Stock Exchange, rising on reports of bumper Northwestern crops to $19.75, up $3.50. Northern Pacific jumped $2.50 to $19.75. Atchison at $47 and Union Pacific at $105.50 were both...
...Test Pilot Boris Sergievsky opened the throttles for the initial flight, the ship surged forward under the drive of its two 750-h.p. Hornet engines. Suddenly those on shore burst into a torrent of excited Russian. One of the motors had quit, owing to a defective fuel pump. Capt. Sergievsky, unaware of the engine failure, kept The throttles open. The 543 got up "on the step," lumbered into the air on one motor after 15 sec. At 200 ft. Mechanic Albert Morvay got the ailing engine working again by "wabbling" fuel with a hand pump. Capt. Sergievsky brought the ship...
...September afternoon in 1901, President McKinley stood in the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, smiling wearily toward the crowd that surged forward to grasp his hand. Beside him a stern, square-jawed young man was waving the people away. ''Oh, let them in," said the President to his personal secretary. "They've come a long ways. I'll be glad to meet them." Obediently the secretary stood aside until the room was filled, then stepped down to close the door. He did not notice a calm, boyish-looking man who slipped...