Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brother-in-law, Francisco Franco, rose with leisurely languor from a red velvet couch, adjusted his gray silk tie, sauntered into his studio to receive the unexpected callers. Solemn of mien, in dark blue suits and black ties, the two señors coldly declined to sit. One thrust forward a blue-bound book with the bright yellow title-Press Mission in Spain. "Have you seen this book?" he asked with menace in his tone...
...Guide is a modest moneymaker, but the Youngs look forward to the day when the paper will no longer be needed. Says T. W., who is president of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association: "If the daily newspapers . . . adequately reported [Negro news] and crusaded against all injustices . . . they would take away the . . . reason why Negro newspapers exist...
...waterborne jet works on much the same principle as the airborne ramjet. It consists of a roughly cylindrical chamber with openings at both ends. As the engine moves forward, water comes in the front opening and is mixed with a "water reactive propellant." A "surface tension depressant" (wetting agent) is injected into the water too, presumably to help the fuel mix with the water stream or to help bubbles form...
...uniting with its oxygen, giving off heat and a large volume of hydrogen gas. The combustion chamber is shaped so as to make the expanding water-and-gas mixture shoot out the rear opening as a high-speed jet. The reaction from this drives the engine (and the torpedo) forward...
...positive dividend seems to be shaping up out of the recent unpleasantness--the revision of state penal laws along the lines of Dr. Van Waters' progressive techniques in rehabilitation work. The present Commissioner is opposed to such techniques and would be opposed to any forward revision in the laws. But the state legislature passes legislation, not public officials; and if future penal codes are not to McDowell's liking, he will have a face-saving reason for resigning...