Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoroughness and despatch with which Mr. Morrow, at President Coolidge's request, investigated the Air Service rumpus kicked up by Col. William A. Mitchell, U. S. A., in 1925; how, as chairman of the President's Aircraft Board, Mr. Morrow mapped out the Government air program now going forward...
...votes less than Senator-elect Vare piled up in the Philadelphia pri-mary last Autumn against George Wharton Pepper and Gifford Pinchot. Elated, Candidate Moore and friends talked about another assault on the Vare machine at the November election, with an independent ticket. Philadelphians could thus look forward to two months more of Vare-style campaigning, which consists in spending dollars by the hundreds of thousands. A pro-Vare organ that will presumably continue is The Young Republican, among whose targets in the primary campaign were...
Herr Strauss jumped from his seat, hurdled on to the stage. "He was leaning forward," wrote Olin Downes, "exhorting the orchestra, molding every phrase and gradation, spurring and reining that band at will, leading it up to climaxes of shattering intensity. . . . At the end every one lost his head except a newspaper photographer. De Grignon rushed frantically from the wings. He and Strauss fondled, kissed and babbled over each other. The photographer caught them on the fly and forced them to freeze in that attitude for a moment . . . the two men were genuinely angered...
...remainder of the Crimson forward line has been tried under fire. B. H. Strong Occ, at left end, Dudley Bell '28, the pivot man, Daniel Simonds '28, right guard, and Captain C. A. Pratt '28, right tackle, are veterans of one or more Yale games. F. A. Clark '29 and John Parkinson '29, left tackle and guard respecive- ly, saw action in encounters last fall...
Statisticans and their followers will be interested to learn that the University team outweighs the visitors. The figures for the line give an average of 187 pounds for the Harvard forward wall and 178 for the Vermont bulwark. The advantage in the backfield is by a margin of 174 to 161, while the average team weights are 182 and 172. The gross weight of the Harvard team is one ton on the hoof; the Vermonters aggregate is 110 pounds less