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Word: forwards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train stopped, and the Boy Scouts rushed forward to greet the man who stepped with sure tread from the car. Cameras clicked jerkily; the young shouted their welcome; reporters, notebook in hand, mused on childish love of deifying. The Bremen flyers were hailed with more ceremony, but with no more sincerity than was this man. If he received no key to the city; if no regal automobile waited him; if most of the Tremont Street crowds went their way unwitting, still the adulation and joy of greeting were present, and only the means for expressing them rightly won lacking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEROES AND HERO-WORSHIP | 6/5/1928 | See Source »

...reversed his speed then and travelled back to the scene of the sneezing. All the passengers on the train as well as brakemen and conductors helped him look for his synthetic molars. The search had been relinquished as futile, Engineer Bush was back in his cab, and moving forward again when a great shout went up behind him. A local searching party had found his teeth. Amid cheers from the passengers and cries of "Shut your face!" Engineer Bush put them back in his mouth, frowned, and resumed his nonchalant journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Hobo | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Parts of the work upon which the plans do not conflict and upon which work may go forward at once, and the amounts of money that may be spent this year, are as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Signed & Consigned | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Roosevelt sat upon a little seat on the forward edge of the lower wing and, with his feet upon a rail built out ahead, could look between his legs at the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...parties will have to make sacrifices and maybe the banks also. For a bank it is better to have a live customer on the books than a corpse. Until you get an industry on a sound basis you cannot move forward half an inch and you will never get fresh capital, enthusiasm or anything, and nothing but ruin stares you in the face. No Government can help in this cutting out of deadwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baldwin's Pennies | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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