Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circumstances seem to have demanded stronger measures from a female rat recently observed. At the same time as her litter was removed, a male was placed in her cage. Immediately she drove him to a corner in the forefront of the cage, where he was obliged to stand on his hind legs and to remain so standing, while she excitedly brought pieces of hay, and, literally, walled him in. The hay was patted in place, to the full height of the cage, so that she might not see him. She herself was totally without bedding ultimately. The state of siege...
JAMES HILTON is rapidly establishing a place for himself in the forefront of English novelists. Two of his latest works, "Good-by Mr. Chips," and "Lost Horizon" are national best-sellers, the latter having been awarded the Hawthornden Prize for the current year...
Legislative hobbies: Farmers, Indians, peace. In the forefront of any farm relief agitation, he proposed last winter that the Government refinance farm mortgages with new currency, at a cost of $9,000,000,000. He threw his whole weight behind the Kellogg-Briand pact to outlaw war, hopes that some day the U. S. will make armed conflict unconstitutional. In appearance he is tall, bald, hulking. He dresses carelessly. He belongs to no church, goes to none...
UNFINISHED CATHEDRAL-T. S. Stribling-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Last week Thomas Sigismund Stribling hung his hat in the U. S. Hall of Fame. From unconsidered and inconsiderable beginnings he had made his slow, steady way to the forefront of U. S. letters. When in 1931 he published the first part (The Forge) of his triple-decker novel of the South, it caused little stir. The second volume (The Store) won him the Pulitzer Prize and was chosen by the Literary Guild. Last week appeared the final part of Author Stribling's trilogy (Unfinished Cathedral), which in turn was chosen...
...readers of his special merits, Pound has been an important force in Anglo-American literature. His innovations have been genuine improvements in the technique of poetry; by virtue of them, he has exerted a profound influence on several contemporary poets. He has managed somehow to be in the forefront of every revolt from tradition which has not been revolting in every sense of the word...