Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private investment and private initiative to relieve the Government in the immediate future of much of the burden it has assumed will be fulfilled. We have not imposed undue restrictions upon business. We have not opposed the incentive of reasonable and legitimate private profit. . . . We have sought to put forward the rule of fair play in finance and industry." Opponents: ". . . There are a few among us who would still go back. These few offer no substitute for the gains already made, nor any hope for making future gains for human happiness. They loudly assert that individual liberty is being restricted...
...industrialist and president of Cooper Union's Board of Trustees, uprose to warn the seniors to work hard and be modest. Then he started to hand out diplomas. Sixteen diplomas & handshakes were enough for Octogenarian Cutting. Another trustee, portly, erect, broad-mustached and 16 years his junior, stepped forward to take his place. The line of graduates surged up, rippled across the stage. The portly trustee pumped each well-scrubbed right hand, thrust a diploma into the left, grinned, murmured "Congratulations." Each presentation took four seconds. On & on they came - bakers from Brooklyn, mechanics from Manhattan, soda-jerkers from...
...Treaty cruisers of the Scouting Force, then a brood of 21 destroyers. Two thousand yards behind them glided the cruisers and destroyers of the Battle Force, followed by nine of the nation's 15 capital ships. New Mexico and Mississippi looked the most impressive with their modern, heavy forward fighting bridges. But the West Virginia, with outmoded masts like inverted wire-work waste baskets, sported a white E on her stack to show that she still surpassed all upstarts in her division in engineering efficiency. The show was over when the train, the "dungaree navy" came by, with...
...that Isaac was well aware that he was blessing Jacob instead of Esau; asserts that Jacob demonstrably served 25, not 20 years, with Laban; supplies Rachel's age at her death (41). He puts in Isaac's dying mouth a babbled prophecy that stretches back to Abraham, forward to Christ. Laban, unlucky until Jacob came to live with him, had sought to propitiate the gods by burying alive his infant son in the foundations of his house. When Joseph is born, Jacob prophesies about him as if he were a Messiah, his mother a virgin-goddess...
...CHAOS - Ilya Ehrenbourg - Holt ($2.50). Another we'd-die-for-the-dear-old-steel-plant novel; of the same order but not nearly as good as Kataev's Time, Forward! (TIME...