Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admirably typical of Mr. Gilbert, 34 but seasoned-a Baptist, a 1912 graduate of Rutgers College* and Harvard Law School, a U. S. Treasury "career man," and so conservative that he maintains a residence m the town of his birth: Bloomfield, N. J. Two Theses. Agent General Gilbert put forward last week in his 131-page printed report, two main theses: 1) That Germany can fulfill her Dawes Plan payments after the present (third) Reparations year quite as scrupulously as she has heretofore; 2) That the present German Finance Ministry (under reactionary Minister of Finance Herr Dr. Heinrich Koehler...
...turned several forward somersaults from the mat and not one from the springboard. I did somersaults backward from the springboard and from the mat. I do not know where your reporter got this information...
Reforestation. A frequently brought forward measure of flood-control has been reforestation. One objection to this scheme is that the Mississippi went on one of the greatest floods of its history in 1844 when the valley was thickly forested...
...platform fringed with potted plants, he put his manuscript on a pedestal before him, gripped the pedestal with both hands, read. Soon those members of his audience who may have been acquainted with developments concerning the appointment of U. S. delegates to the Geneva Conference, sat straight up, leaned forward or otherwise shifted their persons to positions indicating close attention...
...were waiting in the vicinity of the Washington Monument. Radio Announcer Graham McNamee was telling the rest of the land: "Here comes the guard of honor ahead of Lindbergh's car. . . . The cavalrymen with drawn sabres make a dashing picture. . . . Here's the boy. . . . He comes forward unassuming, quiet, a little stoop in his shoulders. . . . Now I will turn the microphone to the reviewing stand, where President Coolidge and the boy Lindbergh stand quietly together...