Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...groups which meet in NRA-employers, consumers, employes. NRA was deliberately conceived in controversy. . . . Before the people of this country accept either preconceived conjectures of ill-informed commentators or the fulminations of minorities which still seek special and selfish privileges, we shall consider the results already achieved and look forward to greater gains on behalf of orderly progress for honest labor and honest industry." Nevertheless it seemed likely that NRA would take seriously the objections raised against it, would give its organization a thoroughgoing overhauling during the summer when Congress would no longer be in Washington to peer over...
...boots snapped together and up went his arm in the Roman salute Nazis have borrowed. Up went Der Führers arm, too, and Dictator eyed Dictator, each stern to the point of glowering. For the first time on record the unruly lock of hair which normally hangs forward over Adolf Hitler's brow was seen to have been neatly pomaded back. Smack!-Dictator Mussolini, now all smiles after shaking hands with effusive vigor, flung his left arm around Herr Hitler in a half embrace. Meanwhile the second German plane coasted in. and out bustled pompous Foreign Minister Baron...
...Cadet Charles F. Tank." Amid polite applause the class's honor man stepped up. saluted smartly, got his diploma and a handshake, marched back to his seat. One by one other cadets marched briskly forward to answer their names. When the 249th diploma had been handed out, the last name was called: "Cadet. John B. Richardson Jr." Up went the mightiest shout of the day, rolling away down the river valley. At commencement time every U. S. school & college delights in singling out for honor the winners in its four-year race. West Point and Annapolis, however, keep from...
...annual lemon show has none. The suntanned girls of San Bernardino who hope and pray to be Queen of the Oranges, will not compete for Queen of the Lemons. But in East Texas last week a trim 17-year-old belle of Jacksonville did not hesitate to come forward and be crowned Queen of the Tomatoes. By proclamation of Governor Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, last week was the first "National"' Tomato Week, sponsored by the East Texas and Jacksonville Chambers of Commerce, blessed by growers, shippers and canners in a dozen States...
...faithful and once-faithful Wellsian was glad that these early tales (The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, The Food of the Gods, In the Days of the Comet} had been reissued, looked forward to recapturing the excitement of their first reading...