Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surgeon motioned to his assistants to complete preparations for the operation. Graduate surgeons and doctors, students and pressmen drew back out of the way, craned their heads forward to watch the technique. The surgeon grasped hold of the child's crippled leg with his powerful fingers, flexed the knee, rotated the thigh, brought it up and then down with a motion as slow and tremendous as that of a caterpillar tractor. There was a snapping of adhesions, a sickening cracking. The two legs were together, were bandaged into immobility with the hips. The surgeon straightened up. His blue eyes, which...
...Musical Studio's system of having a chorus always present on the stage as a background for the rest of the music is undoubtedly a great step forward. Other composers have understood the principle, but have failed to see how the chorus could be present without awkwardness...
...survey into crime and criminal justice ever conducted by a Faculty of Law, will be directed at Greater Boston by Dean Pound, Professor Frankfurter and their associates. In 1921 a somewhat similar investigation, but on a smaller scale, was held in Cleveland, and was hailed as a material step forward. Harlan F. Stone, a justice of the Supreme Court, in reviewing the work said. "The survey as a whole is dominated by the belief that facts have a reforming power of their own. Civic organizations of Cleveland who are responsible for this undertaking may take just pride in their work...
...Pack opp my bags," he said. The Gigli secretary (Amadeo Grossi) sprang to obey. The Gigli trainer (H. J. Reilly) stepped forward with a glass of water. What would the Gigli Manhattan manager (R. E. Johnston) say to this! What would the Gigli Detroit manager (Mrs. Isobel Hurst) advise him to do? Beniamino Gigli did not know, did not care. Contract or no contract, he was going back to Manhattan...
About twenty-five years ago, when the building of the Charles River dam stabilized rowing conditions, Harvard rowing men began looking forward to the day when the wooden-pile bridges along the river with their single narrow openings would be replaced by arched bridges allowing several crews to race under them...