Word: onward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back to their original inventor would demand far more real labor and exacting research than the problem is worth. Alton Kimball ("Special Delivery", "Arlington Al", etc.) Marsters comes to the Stadium today. He is the hostile nicknamed star in the position which last Saturday was taken by C. K. ("Onward Christian") Cagle, the hula-hipped...
Second Day. Over the grubby villages of Western Russia, onward over the forests in the East moved the fabulous grey shape. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Hearst explorer-correspondent reported: "Astonished people rushed to the streets in night attire and, scared and frightened, I judge, almost out of their wits, just as quickly rushed back to their homes." The Graf Zeppelin crossed the Ural Mountains and then was in Asia...
...Scans His Past tells a story as much of prairies and snows as of death and love in Canada. Poetic descriptions of nature are lavishly strewn over a French horse-trader's trek from the U. S. to Canada where he sells his herd; then his mush onward by sled and dog, to the frozen Northwest for furs. On the way back death comes to his companion ; and, though freighted by the corpse in a wolf-country, he battles his way back to the girl he loves, Hannah O'Molloy. They marry and there is a child...
...hesitantly to about three millions while Liberty reached that figure in steady upward dashes. The Post's career after the memorable Christmas of 1934 was shown continuing vaguely off the side of the graph with about four million circulation at the end of 1937. Liberty, however, was shown dashing onward and upward with such verve that it went quite out of sight at the top of the graph in the autumn of 1936. Readers could only conclude that Cousins Patterson & McCormick publish, on their own showing, a magazine where the sky is the limit...
James Cannon Jr., many years ago, pinned upon his mother's breast her only jewel (the white emblem of Prohibition) and laid her to rest and dedicated his life to her battle against alcohol. No mean gen eral, he could fight on two fronts, upward in the church, onward against politicians. Both battles culminated last year in un qualified personal victory. In politics, he undermined the Byrd better-government organization in Virginia, which endorsed the Wet Smith, and put the State in the Republican columns. For this activity he was declared last week to be the man who had done...