Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ambassador to France still had to be found by President Hoover. The names of General Pershing, Alvan Tufts Fuller, Frederick Henry Prince seemed eliminated. Other names brought forward included New Jersey's Senator Walter Evans Edge, New York's onetime (1915-27) Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth jr., Ohio's automobile-maker John North Willys...
There are three methods of scoring. A kick under the cross bar of the goal posts nets three points; a forward pass completed in the end zone, two points; and a drop kick over the cross bar, one point. By these different ratings, the significance of the kicking and passing elements is made more equal...
Comfort. Even the open sport planes had their comforts-a pad for back of the pilot's head and one in front, if he jounces forward. Cabins had wicker or upholstered chairs or seats, ash trays, drinking cups. Large and small transports had washstands, toilets and kitchens. But informality is still essential for most air travel...
Long before daybreak, the federals appeared in three columns. Right and left closed in on Jiminez like a nutcracker, while the main column under General Almazan himself pressed straight forward. It was impossible to see. A thousand crashes which left the eardrums ringing, and the darkness burst into points of flame. Artillery, machine gunners and riflemen banged away at the opposing flashes. The rebels, with three lines of trenches, held out bravely to the dawn and through the heat of the ensuing...
Swift to follow up his advantage. General Almazan pressed forward with his cavalry, caught up with the fleeing rebels at the broken railway bridge of La Reforma. Here was "the bloodiest hour." Federal bands of Indian cavalry swept down on the rebel trains from both sides. Aviators bombed the trains repeatedly. Over 1,000 were killed in the slaughter, and after the remnant of the rebels had escaped, the dead were piled on freight cars like logs...