Word: onwardness
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...worn or fatigued tissues the heart works harder to pump cleansing, healing blood. Normally the arteries-flexible, elastic, contractile tubes springing directly from the heart as the great aorta and ending far away as tiny arterioles-expand as the blood enters them, then contract progressively to push the blood onward to the ends of the body-to the brain, the vitals, the tissues of the heart itself, the limbs, the skin. From the terminal arterioles tiny capillaries suck this blood into venules like tiny, feeble fountains trickling foul blood back to the heart. This venous blood the heart pumps into...
...President issued his annual call to all good people to enroll in and contribute to that movement which has "marched unflinchingly onward to succor humanity"-the American Red Cross...
...alumnus to equally rigorous action. His path is clear: football must be rescued from the paralyzing limbo between amateurishness and professionalism. Much as he might sigh for the old days, it is obviously, too late to regain for the game a lost amateur standing. The present status is impossible. Onward, then to a business basis. The players must of course remain amateurs, but the game should be professionalize. This happy device would at once save honor and avoid paying salaries to the players. A stock company should obviously be floated, with the alumni subscribing for the shares. Only...
...obviously too late to regain for the game a lost amateur standing. The present status is impossible. Onward, then, to a business basis...
Down a long aisle of oaks to two great stands garlanded with purple and white, six choirs in vestments marched singing "Onward Christian Soldiers," and after the chorister, came 120 bishops robed in scarlet and gold, and purple and black and white. And one of the bishops, Thomas F. Gailor of Tennessee, rose and read a sermon by another bishop, Theodore Dubose Bratton of Mississippi-a defense of the faith, a plea for the maintenance of the creed of the apostles. Thus at Audubon Park, New Orleans, was opened the 48th Triennial Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America...