Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kirk Hershey and Harlan Gustafson form as dangerous and versatile a pair of flankmen as any coach would care to have. Both men displayed an uncanny knack for pulling down forward passes, and this ability more than anything else earns them the nod over such operatives as Howie Stanley of Princeton and Brownie Brinkley of Yale...
...objective now. Before the great Ludendorff push of 1918, the Germans conducted innumerable attacks of inquiry, compiled a thorough textbook on the behavior of various generals commanding various parts of the Allied line. They learned, for example, that General Gough's army was disposed strongly in its forward or battle zone, but weakly in the rear; that Lieut. General Butler's forces were organized with most of their strength to the left; that the British Buffs of the 18th Division were organized around a quarry. When the big push came, each of these positions received special treatment; Gough...
Survivors told of seeing fellow passengers blown along the decks like tenpins. The first blast's force lifted the whole ship out of water forward. Officers on the bridge were slain at their posts. The second explosion burst Bolivar's fuel tanks and the sea around her became filled with swimmers gasping and spluttering in black oil. One rescued baby was officially listed as a pickaninny, then scrubbed, and listed as white. One man saved his small daughter by pushing her ahead of him through the sludge on a packing case. While being rescued by tugs and trawlers...
...Sirdhana (7,745 tons) blew up last week as it left Singapore harbor. William ("The Great") Nicola, U. S. magician, lost tons of paraphernalia but he, his wife & troupe were saved. A gang of 137 Chinese deportees had to be turned loose from their prison in Sirdhana's forward hold, recaptured later. The third officer of a Japanese steamer moored nearby rushed to the rescue in a small boat. Blamed for the disaster was a recently derelict British mine, broken loose from the Singapore naval base defense field...
What Picasso's effect on the future will be, no one yet can say. Doubtless he is content to have provided so many possible breaks with the past. "In the old days," he told a disciple in 1935, "pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture-then I destroy it. In the end, though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else...