Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With what wealth of plot and counterplot did the play proceed! A friend of Jackson Jones lent his incongruous assistance to Billie; he was a person who used these terms in answering a telephone: "You speak first, it's your nickel." Also he suggested a Smith slogan...
...Army, faced with such sturdy Southern Methodists as Baccus, Roach and Watters, found it difficult to proceed, even by forced marches. Cagle, the West Point halfback, dodged through them several times. The final score was 14?13; the Methodists had missed one kick after touchdown...
Christabel is one of those whose intelligence has raised her out of the realm of feeling. Her mind informs her of the emotion that should be hers at the moment. Only then does she proceed to experience it. When held at last, in the arms of the man who has resisted her longest, she thinks "I am dying of bliss . . . I am not disappointed. No, No! I'm not, I'm not." There is a certain bigness in a thoroughly resolute, deliberate hypocrite. Petty Christabel is not that. She actually believes in her own sweetness, sympathy, and understanding...
...Cadets numbering some 1200 men will arrive in Boston early Saturday morning. After their official welcome in Boston they will proceed to Cambridge where they will detrain at the carbarns near Memorial Drive, and march up Plympton Street through the Yard to the Harvard Union in two shifts...
...sketched upon a pad always in hand, to prove the qualities of stability possessed by this unique craft. Having completed the professoriat demonstration Prof. A. A. Merril of the Daniel Guggenheim Graduate School of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena) would climb into his "Flying Pickle" and proceed to demonstrate that his invention could range in speed from 45 to 105 miles per hour, take off, land, climb, descend, balance itself, without the pilot so much as touching the controls...