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Foreword  n.  A preface.






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"Foreword" Quotes from Famous Books



... Foreword 5 List of Illustrations and Diagrams 9 The Argument for Medical Inspection 11 Health and School Progress 13 Examinations for Physical Defects 14 Objections to Medical Inspection 16 How the Work Started ...
— Health Work in the Public Schools • Leonard P. Ayres and May Ayres

... Foreword The Indian Sibyl's Prophecy The Flight of Padre Peyri Father Zalvidea's Money La Beata Juana Father ...
— Old Mission Stories of California • Charles Franklin Carter

... Foreword Introduction The Mechanics of Nuclear Explosions Radioactive Fallout A. Local Fallout B. Worldwide Effects of Fallout Alterations of the Global Environment A. High Altitude Dust ...
— Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives • United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

... to elicit who this Seaton may have been. I may add that the visit of the deceased to Allerton's Farm, and the general nature of the alarm there, apart from his particular explanation, have been absolutely established. With this foreword I append his account exactly as he left it. It is in the form of a diary, some entries in which have been expanded, while a ...
— Tales of Terror and Mystery • Arthur Conan Doyle

... of "Buffalo Bill" by his sister Helen Cody Wetmore, with Foreword and conclusion ...
— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston

... cursed with a hideous and blinding lettering that the German is too patriotic to sacrifice. There has been in Germany a more powerful parallel to what one may call the "honest Saxon" movement among the English, that queer mental twist that moves men to call an otherwise undistinguished preface a "Foreword," and find a pleasurable advantage over their fellow-creatures in a familiarity with "eftsoons." This tendency in German has done much to arrest the simplification of idiom, and checked the development of new words of classical origin. In particular ...
— Anticipations - Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon - Human life and Thought • Herbert George Wells

... France, and he tells us of his adventures with no sense of self-importance but with an honest appreciation of their value to the general scheme of operations. He has also a keen eye for the humours of life, and can make his jest with most admirable brevity. "Doubtless," he says in a foreword, "the whole world will fly before many years have passed, but for the moment most people have to be content to read about it." I am one of them, and he has added to ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 19, 1919 • Various



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