Word: precursor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...before the World War. It was in 1890 that Harvard had its first medical care of football players. Dr. W.M. Conant '79, a former player, was made by the captain, alsolute lord of the physical side of that year's eleven. In 1893 was begun the quarterback kick, the precursor of the onside kicking game. Likewise during this decade came the innovation of the first tackling dummy ever used at Cambridge. This was a crude and fearful engine, a cylinder of about five feet in height and 18 inches in diameter, covered with leather with very little padding under...
...fourth, fifth, and sixth--as to the epoch of the Founders of their civilization. Among these Founders whom Professor Rand has chosen as most significant for later developments are St. Ambrose, the Mystic; St. Jerome, the Humanist; Boethius, the first of the Scholastics; and St. Augustine as a precursor, in some respects, of Dante. He also treats of the New Poetry of Latin Christianity and the New Education in relation to both the past and the future including our own times. The fundamental consideration is the attitude of the Church to Pagan culture, which it did not reject but combined...
...with the best college records. The relation seems to be something more than a coincidence, wherefore, if Mr. Gifford's observations among the men in one company may be taken as representative of other cases, it seems to follow that scholastic attitude is in the majority of instances the precursor of success in business...
...most amusing volume on display is a precursor of the modern books of etiquette, printed in 1685, and entitled "The Mysteries of Love and Eloquence, or, the Arts of Wooing and Complimenting," as they are managed in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange and other eminent places. The contents of the book are further set off in the phrases "And to compleat the young Practitioners of Love and Courtship, these following conducing Helps are chiefly insisted on: Addresses and set Forms of Expression for imitation, Poems, pleasant Songs, Letters, Proverbs, Riddles, Jests, Posies, Devices, Ala-Mode Pastimes...
Throughout the War Mr. Gernsback busied himself with writing scientific romances for his magazine about imagined super-tanks as big as ten locomotives, a hundred, a thousand. . . . With the welling up of the radio craze he began to publish Radio News, the Radio Review and Radio InternacionaL Now this precursor of all "radio hugs" has gambled that the U. S. may have developed a new morality, may be ready to buy a sex magazine almost without sex appeal. The first issue of Your Body carried the intimation that the next copy may appear in "about six months," asked: "Would...