Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, built in the 1880's at so great a cost per mile that financial wags of the period said that its rails were nickel plated. In 1916, the Nickel Plate (with 523 mi. of track connecting Buffalo with Chicago) was not in the forefront of railroads. It was a second-grade property, far from profitable. The New York Central was glad to sell its majority interest...
...owner of favored Golden Miller is his cousin. Like her, he will be upholding the tradition of a family which, for three generations, has made its name almost constantly the most important one in U. S. racing; a family which, for half a century, has been at the forefront of the U. S. sporting aristocracy...
...lecture on "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism," before a large audience in the New Lecture Hall. Mr. Eliot said this in summarizing his disagreement with those posts, particularly Shelley, and also the late D. H. Lawrence, who force beliefs and self-made dogmas to the forefront in their poetry, and keep poetry proper more or less in the background...
...learn-and for that matter to graduate-is an active, not a passive verb," Here is a bit of writing that states a principle already well mastered by its author; his influence has since tended farther than such a mere statement of the case, and into the active forefront of its solution...
Frigidaire v. Upstarts. The last five years have brought dazzling growth to the electric refrigeration industry. Production leaped from 390,000 units in 1927 to 965,000 last year. Public utility companies have pushed sales to their customers to build up power consumption. At the forefront of the expansion have been General Electric, Kelvinator, General Motors (Frigidaire), Westinghouse. Servel's Electrolux has led the gas field. During the Depression many a smaller manufacturing concern has added electric refrigerators as a profitable sideline. Examples: Crosley Radio Corp., Grigsby-Grunow Co. (radios), Wurlitzer Co. (musical instruments)-all concentrating...