Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presto Agitato. To Mozart's A Major Sonata she brought little grace. But for most of the afternoon young Ruth was in might-&-main mood, sweeping the keyboard with glittering arpeggios, pounding out tremendous chords. Knowing that she usually likes to keep on playing, hundreds of listeners rushed forward at the end of the program to watch the stubby flying fingers. But after two encores a lackey walked on stage, sternly closed the piano...
...heavily tapestried, rococo boardroom of the 34-story New York Life Insurance Building in Manhattan, Director Alfred Emanuel Smith leaned forward in his chair one day last week and said in a firm clear voice: "I move to adopt the committee's report nominating Mr. Hoover." With a single chorus of "Ayes" all gentlemen present thereupon voted to elect Herbert Clark Hoover a director of New York Life, succeeding the late John E. Andrus (TIME, Jan. 7). From Chicago where he was transacting private business on one of his infrequent trips east from Palo Alto, Director Hoover telegraphed...
Although Ford stared the scoring, the forward wall composed of Hallowell, Hovenanian and Holmes was instrumental in placing all of the remaining tallies. Moseley, Ford, and Carr flashed down together in fine style, but couldn't combine to get past the opposing defense more than once. Watts played a spas- modic game at defense making the blunder which was directly responsible for the first goal of the Olympics, yet rallying strongly throughout the game to break up the opposing attack...
Chief speaker for the affirmative was Donald B. Leiffer '32, assistant in Government, arguing that labor and capital, or liberal and conservative, parties are necessary for democracy, he was refuted by John A. Moore '38 and Isadore Kline '38, speakers for the negative. As arguments the latter brought forward the host of mechanical difficulties attendant on party reorganization...
...again features its self-shifter-a device which automatically changes gears whenever the speed warrants. Motors have been moved forward to improve the ride...