Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they were "dancing" to the music. (Many herpetologists believe that cobras actually pay little attention to the pipes but sway in an effort to follow the body movements of the charmer. Carefully keeping them swaying with a motion of his hand. Sir Miles's charmer stopped playing, inched forward, and with his other hand firmly grasped one reptile behind the neck, lifted it into a bag. He then repeated the performance on the remaining eight...
Mendel, Witkin, Page, Harnden, and Captain Johansen will again tackle the offensive in the Crimson forward line. Phillips, Jacobson and Edgar will play in the half back positions. Hardenberg and Bradley are slated, to defend the Harvard goal as full backs. "Goalie" Williams will again attempt to keep the ball from slipping through...
...rain to watch, long-armed Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine peeled off his coat to engage short-armed Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark of Idaho in a five-minute contest at picking potatoes-a prime product of both their States. Governor Clark pitched his spuds forward into his basket; Governor Barrows scrabbled backwards into a basket between his long, straddled legs (see cut). The winner: Maine's Barrows, 201 lbs. to 197 lbs. He apologized :"I probably had a four-pound rock in there." Idaho's Clark explained: "Your potatoes are smaller and more slippery than...
...Chamberlain went home to forward the latest German demands to Prague and then await events...
...Reichskanzler . . ." began the Prime Minister. "The difficulty I see about the proposal you put to me yesterday afternoon arises from the suggestion that the areas should in the immediate future be occupied by German troops. ... I do not think you have realized the impossibility of my agreeing to put forward any plan unless I have reason to suppose it will be considered by public opinion in my country, in France, and indeed in the world generally, as carrying out the principles already agreed upon in an orderly fashion and free from the threat of force. . . . There must surely be alternatives...