Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...came. Through the ship's corridors ran the call "Action Stations." Fire gongs clanged. Out of the darkness darted a flotilla of speedy, 679-ton torpedo boats, charging in close to loose a shoal of their tin fish. Heeling over hard, the Ajax spurted forward out of their path, opened up with her 6-inch guns. Into the hull of one Italian smashed the first salvo, scarcely dispersed at the point-blank range. But the other attackers maneuvered their small guns into play, began pumping 3.9-inch shells back at the Ajax. With an orange-colored flash, an Italian...
...Pounding forward in chase of a third, the Ajax began to ship water through her forward plates, was forced to reduce speed. In the murk before dawn she suddenly came on an Italian squadron of one heavy cruiser and four destroyers. Opening up again at long range, she staggered one destroyer with a shot through the hull. As the crippled destroyer lost way, another slipped her a towline, started spewing out a smoke screen. By now the Ajax (which the Italians claimed to have sunk) had begun calling up support. But before the heavy cruiser York could arrive, the faster...
Looking back, Michiganders had reason to hip-hip-hooray. Looking forward was not so rosy. Next week Michigan will play Pennsylvania, a powerhouse that bears a terrifying resemblance to Yost's point-a-minute men. In three games this season, George Munger's Quakers have amassed 147 points: 51-to-0 against Maryland, 50-to-7 against Yale, 46-to-28 against Princeton. What they will do when they meet Tom Harmon U is something Michiganders look forward to with mixed emotions. Francis X. Reagan, star of the Penn squad, has scored ten touchdowns in three games...
Coach Dick Harlow has shared the worries of Blaik on this same score. What holes his capable line has lifted in the enemy forward bulwarks the backfield has been slow to take advantage of. No hip-maneuvering speed merchants have as yet appeared on the Crimson Varsity...
...believe the only defense of America lies in the wholehearted support of the democratic way of life, in safeguarding the Bill of Rights and in boldly carrying forward a policy of social reform. Our examination of the records and platforms of the various political parties convinces us that those who share these views must join us in supporting the Communist Party Candidates in the coming election. Roger Willcox, Dean Morse, Joseph Stein...