Word: fore
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Moscow quiet, firm diplomatic protests apparently had some effect. When the prisoners seemed inclined to keep on with confessions tending to incriminate high French officials by name, President Vyshinsky of the Court loudly rang his bell, announced that when accusations involving prominent foreigners were to the fore the Court would sit in secret with no broadcasting...
Four years ago William Atkins, naval architect & designer, and Henry Dike Bixby, former commodore of Long Island's Huntington Yacht Club, founded Fore an' Aft, "class nautical magazine," as something of a hobby. Two years ago Charles Lanier Lawrance, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and John S. Reaves, potent figures in Aviation Country Clubs, decided that a magazine of quality would help interest the wealthy in flying, founded The Sportsman Pilot. Neither magazine made money. Last week both were purchased by gruff-voiced, genial Frank A. Tichenor whose business is publishing, who has made a success of his Aero Digest...
Contributions have already been made by Winthrop Ames '95, Thomas Lamont '92, and Mrs. Eugene Meyer; work on the project will begin as soon as more funds are available. A. R. Lovejoy, director of the School of the Drama, and A. P. Segal have drawn plans for a curtainless fore stage and removable seating sections which can be taken out of the main hall when it is necessary for the Naval Science Students to utilize the building for purposes of drill. Aside from the construction in the main hall the remaining space in the building will be remodeled with permanent...
...relieve it directly there was little President Hoover could do. The Federal Government had no funds for charity; that must come locally. Federal public works were admittedly only a "drop in the bucket" of U. S. construction. For psychological purposes though, the White House kept them to the fore as an example to states & cities. Also the President continued to jack up Industry with requests to push its heavy construction, stagger its employment, maintain its wages...
...chilly afternoon last week. When the engine refused to start, two young mechanics applied a compressed-air booster* to "kick over" the sluggish pistons. Instantly the compressed-air tank and the engine burst, the explosion throwing the crew and their one passenger 40 ft. to the ground, wrecking the fore part of the gondola, scattering a shrapnel of splinters. Flames from the carburetor shot upward but burned out without igniting the hydrogen-filled...