Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Attack Army's task was to push on & on never to retreat except to resume formation, never to worry about food, fuel, ammunition supply, which would be sent forward to them in due time. Should a Panzer column reach an impasse, its duty was to fan out in all directions, like an exploding projectile: to play havoc upon railroads, telegraph, telephone, power, gas and water lines...
...race tracks in the U. S. (Aqueduct, Belmont Park, Saratoga, Pimlico, Delaware Park, Laurel Park) can railbirds see the sportiest of all horse races, a steeplechase. Last week, when beautiful Belmont Park opened its 24-day spring meeting, most of New York's racing fans looked forward to seeing Bimelech and his high-toned contemporaries in some of America's most famed flat races. Dyed-in-the-tweed "regulars" were equally eager to scan the 1940 crop of jumpers...
Seniors were asked to comment on the question of improving Harvard's policy toward the personal and social adjustment of the individual. Many suggestions were put forward, and they were quoted extensively. One Senior suggested, "It shouldn't fire all its good instructors and keep only the Reds and bores.: Another ventured "cocuucation," while still another declared, "Being in chemistry, I wouldn't know...
...Practical tips: ¶ The human skull, an average of one-fifth of an inch thick, is so elastic that often a heavy blow from a blunt instrument only dents it "momentarily." Yet in such cases the tender brain is almost always wounded. In auto accidents, "when a head in forward motion is suddenly arrested by a massive stationary object, the greatest brain damage occurs at a point directly opposite the point of impact. ¶Even patients who are unconscious "only for a moment" should never be sent home, but should be put to bed for two or three weeks...
...Neutrality Act is clear as crystal, straight-forward, factual, and logical. The President's speeches are not. In fact, the President's whole foreign policy is not. He seems to believe certain things which he dares not say out loud--that we cannot let the Allies lose, that they may very well lose without vigorous aid from us, that a victorious Germany could carry out an armed conquest of this country. He does not tell us these things directly, or even indicate exactly why they may be true. And yet, his talks are shot through with annoyance at anyone...