Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valuable aid to the Council of the League of Nations in handling international disputes. It is an ever-ready help in time of trouble to harassed statesmen who are pressed by inflamed opinion and who desire some way out, some forum to go to, some talking point to put forward...
...CRIMSON looks forward to the time when the Harvard football season will be conducted somewhat as follows...
Harold ("Red") Grange leaped up in the twilight, intercepted a forward pass, and started to weave through a blur of tacklers toward the Ohio State Goal line, while 85,000 spectators rose howling to their feet. All day the 85,000 had been pouring into Columbus by bus, by automobile, by train from New York and San Francisco, by airplane, by buggy. They had not come to see a football game. They had come to see Grange, the most advertised player. They knew, as they watched his galloping feet cross line after white line, that they were looking...
...world, the 100-horse-power Mercedes. It was made of steel, painted green, by Edward Budd of Philadelphia. From a trunk swung low behind the gas tank, the curve of the tonneau rose to melt in grace, in vibrant repose, in transcendent muscular languor, into the forward thrust of the hood. The steel mudguards swept over the front wheels with the curve-like ripple of a bloodhound's shoulder-thews; they began where most mudguards stop and curved insolently toward each other far out against the bumper, where the four frosted eyes of the car glare at the daylight. Inside...
Today's session will last two full hours, and will consist mainly of practice in shooting, with the possibility of skeleton scrimmage work between the defense and the forward lines...