Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secured his main line of communications. He proposed that either the minority or the majority of the finance committee should have authority to call upon the Treasury Department for tax reports of corporations to show how much profit they have been making under the present law. The Democrats rushed forward in a body, the Republican irregulars following on their heels. Against them only the stoutest Republicans rushed in. The consumer-tariff forces seized Tax Reports Village by 51 votes to 27. With their communication road thus opened, prompt ly the Democrats despatched 200 ammunition wagons for supplies, 200 requests...
...years ago and started to work her way through Barnard. In spite of our efforts to aid her the strain had produced, by the time she graduated, permanent injury to her heart. ... As a general rule women do not earn as high salaries as men. Moreover, they look forward to marrying and are reluctant to load a debt on a young husband. A debt makes an unattractive sort of dowry. . . ." Dean Gildersleeve thus touched upon one phase of the scholarship and tuition loan problem which, present at all colleges, is being attacked from a new angle...
...legend says, nor six feet tall. But two feet are better than six if they can carry you as fast as Cagle's through a broken field. And it is some consolation, if you are not handy at theme-writing, to be able to throw an accurate forward pass -a Cagle accomplishment for which some experts rate him a more valuable player than Iceman Grange of Illinois ever was. Entering another season of seeing his name in big headlines and hearing it thundered from the stands, drilling with his teammates in the new Army jersey of gold with...
Although no passes have been used so far there has been constant practice on this department of the game. Every backfield candidate has been given a thorough drill on forward and lateral passes, while every prospective punter, drop-kicker, and kickoff man has been working steadily under V. P. Kennard...
...policy of "athletics for all" inaugurated by Mr. Bingham is to be taken from its largest point of view, the graduate students should be able to look forward in this and future years to a much more competent and comprehensive direction of sport, that the new assets with which they are favored may be enjoyed to the utmost, build the future Harvard, and with the addition of the George F. Baker Foundation the dream of fifteen years seemed near consummation...