Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chiang Kai-shek is now (to use Mr. Hirota's adjectives), British subjects had to discharge their duty by recognizing some other Indian as his rightful successor, and Mr. Hirota indicated that this is exactly what Japan is in course of doing in China: "Our Government now look forward to the establishment and growth of the new Chinese regime capable of genuine co-operation with Japan which it is our intention to assist in the building up of the new and rehabilitated China...
Professional ornithologists and professional bird painters have been inclined to look down their noses at his work. They point out his anatomical inaccuracies: his horned owl represented with three rather than two toes forward. They criticize his romantic cloud effects. They pointedly praise the correctness of his contemporaries, men primarily ornithologists like American Museum's Francis Lee Jaques. British Columbia's crack rifle shot Major Allan Brooks, Audubon Societies' youthful Roger Tory Peterson (Field Guide to the Birds), and the late brilliant Louis Agassiz Fuertes. But sportsmen and some collectors like the easy naturalism of Brasher...
...transcontinental tour during Christmas vacation, watched them beat every team they met-both with and without his own rules. In Manhattan, playing under the national rules, his team broke the two-year (43-game) winning streak of Long Island University, with much help from an ambidextrous young forward named Hank Luisetti...
...sophomore year, Forward Luisetti scored 32 points in 32 minutes during a Conference championship game. The same year he tallied 24 points in eleven minutes. In two years of varsity play (sophomore and junior) he scored 826 points, breaking the recognized three-year college scoring record of 632 made by Robert Meaney of Lehigh University in 1928-30. This season (his last) he is credited with making an all-time college record of 50 points in one game during the 92-10-27 victory over Duquesne during the Christmas trip. His total score since he started to play at Stanford...
...result anthropologists have prophesied that the human race will eventually become toothless. But he went on, it is quite as logical to suppose that with increasing knowledge of the factors which influence dental development and with control of the wide spread diseases, caries and pyorrhea, we may look forward to a time when all men will have perfect teeth lasting a full life time...