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Word: avant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Educators and meatpackers, choosing and selecting their guests, might have hailed them as apparitors, as prodromi, outriders, bellwethers, bellmares, avant-couriers, foreloopers. Actually they acclaimed them as Pioneers of U. S. industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tycoons | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Eighth Olympiad actually started in January with Winter Sports, at Chamonix, French Alps, as Division I of the events. Of the 21 divisions, 5 had been completed as follows before President Doumergue enunciated a belated "En avant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympiad | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

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