Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heading the committee is inquisitive Senator Reed, Democrat from Missouri; the other Democrat on the committee is Senator King of Utah, one of the least silent men in the upper house. Young Senator LaFollette, Progressive Republican from Wisconsin, not inclined to be forward, has yet shown in the Tariff Commission investigation that he is not the type to sit back dumbly during cross-examining. The Republican side of the committee has Senator Goff of West Virginia, a so-called hard-boiled Republican of the genus bred in West Virgina, and Senator McNary of Oregon, known in the Senate...
...Houghton, gowned in bois de rose embroidered with dull gold sequins and having a train of rose and gold broché lace, led forward, at the first or "diplomatic" Court last week seven ladies of the diplomatic circle, and the following whose presentation had been determined by other considerations:** The Misses Alice Lee? Eva Wise?? and Mildred Tytus of Manhattan, Miss Lorrain Liggett of Boston, Miss Caroline Patterson? of Dayton, Ohio, Miss Henrietta Johnson of Paris, Mrs. Wilson Pritchett of Philadelphia and Mrs. Curtis Brown of London...
...further and, it is believed, final upset occurred in the combination crew today, when J. DeW. Bubbard '29 moved forward to number seven, and D. S. Greer '29 filled the vacant number two seat. This is probably the last change which will be made, according to Coach Brown's expectation. The boating is now as follows: stroke, A. O. Pendar '27; 7, J. DeW. Hubbard '29; 6. R. S. Riley '27; 5, P. B. Huntington '26; 4, T. D. Howe Jr. '26; 3, K. D. Robinson '29; 2, D. S. Greer '29; bow, George Bancroft '27; cox., A. M. Pappenheimer...
...matters of culture and intellect, that they are too often sending forth men Ill equipped in anything without the precise and narrow bournes of their particular trade, one considers any movement toward incorporating the study of military or naval science within the category of liberal education is a step forward in humanizing the military profession and giving to the nation an opportunity to reduce the military to its proper place in the college community without allowing the army and navy completely to fall into that state so adequately described by a certain gentleman as "innocuous desuetude...
...which has received more liberal and often ill-informed contempt from professors and students of the drama than its stage. The years from Sheridan to Robertson have been considered the absolute zero of the drama itself; when the Professor ends his lectures on Sheridan, he casts a long glance forward to 1865 and Robertson, dons his seven-league critical boots, and stamps his way quickly through the poetic drama and the Shakesperian revivals, which alone illuminate the "void, or chaos, of Georgian and early Victorian drama," leaving in his train disparagement and apology until he comes to the renaissance...