Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparative failure of other agreements to give Europe the sense of security essential to disarmament and permanent peace I lay to the fact that America refused to be a party to those covenants and conventions. . . . That is why I call the proposal of the United States the greatest forward movement that has yet been made toward World Peace. . . . America is coming...
Many a sportsman has his pilot's license, his private plane. But not until last week could he look forward to the prospect of a day at his flying country club. Miss Ruth Rowland Nichols, Junior Leaguer of Rye, N. Y., enthusiastic amateur aviatrix with a non-stop flight from New York to Miami to her credit, shouldered the task of promoting three clubs in New York and New Jersey, forerunners of a nation-wide chain of private and exclusive country clubs devoted to aeronautical sports. Associated with Promoter Nichols are such younger capitalists as William A. Rockefeller, William...
...Forward into battle...
...large number of prominent men with experience in politics came forward and assisted to perfect the organization. Then we went ahead and did efficient work. Oh, yes, I will admit that it is an efficient organization...
Fiji did not give up Waqavuka easily. The bird-boat might not fly until brown eyes had seen the 200-sovereign purse given by the mayor of Suva to help pay the debts of the white men. Brown noses pressed forward to inhale the perfume of garlands and of a floral American flag tenderly woven by little brown children. Brown fingers touched Waqavuka's talisman, the omnipotent Tambua, tooth of the sacred whale...