Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Regional Studies received the brunt of Wednesday's article. According to the Chicago daily, Reds are supplying the "kits" for university education, particularly in this area. Moreover, "Eastern universities, always notorious in the higher education circles of the country for their internationalist sympathies; have placed themselves in the forefront of a movement to introduce regional studies of the world...
Stanley's discovery put a pack of scientists hot on the trail of the viruses. Stanley kept well in the forefront; last week he summed up recent discoveries in the eerie world of the infinitely little and the half-alive...
...ambassadorial reports had advocated economic aid to Greece. Last week it seemed to MacVeagh that the economic program would be far from enough. Real construction could hardly begin until guerrilla activity was contained. That might take a momentous decision by U.N. with the U.S. in the forefront...
...sunny terrace, in the gaudy bar and up & down the slippery stone corridors of the Hotel Quitandinha, delegates gossiped, shook hands, lobbied and told stories. The tanned and grey chief of the U.S. delegation was hardly seen in public. Yet, despite his efforts to push Latin leaders to the forefront, George Marshall dominated the Rio Inter-American Defense Conference...
William Francis Gibbs '10, vice president of Gibbs and Cox Inc., naval architects, who was given the American Design award for making possible mass production of ships through standardization of parts. Doctor of Science. Citation: "Naval architect and marine engineer, in the forefront of his profession; the engineer of all manner of new craft for peace...