Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, to push forward re-employment, the President publicly renewed his faith in Public Works: "To those who say that our expenditures for public works and other means for recovery are a waste that we cannot afford. I answer that no country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources...
Northwestern's first appearance, against Marquette, was featured by forward passes by a tall senior named George Potter which enabled his team...
Rules. New football regulations this year are based on the premise that crowds want to watch an open game. Forward passing is favored with a ball an inch thinner than last year. The first incomplete forward pass across the goal line (except on fourth down) no longer causes loss of the ball. The 5-yd. set-back for two incomplete passes in one series of downs has been removed. Because coaches last year decided that the defense had too many advantages, another rule, designed to popularize quick kicks, permits a punter to have a teammate hold the ball in position...
...Archie Anderson had the wheel; the pilot was in the passengers' cabin. Suddenly Anderson saw a great dazzling ball in his path which he afterward said was as "big as a house." Instinctively he whipped his plane into a bank. The passengers snapped awake and the pilot rushed forward in time to see the meteor shatter like a mammoth bomb. Glowing fragments streamed past, plunged earthward. The plane was unharmed. But on the ground a truck driver who saw the meteor telephoned police that a burning airplane was falling. California astronomers thought it likely that the phenomenon...
...true that some regions and some classes are actively antagonistic, but until the opposition puts forward some constructive program which it begins congenitally unable to do, organized trouble is not over likely to develop...