Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Westward from Hawaii lie the islands which the Japanese had 30 years to prepare for defense: Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Majuro and Palau. Those glittering prizes of yesteryear have their garrisons, their installations and their functions, but they are no longer in the forefront of the new Pacific...
Senator Happy Chandler, newly-crowned czar of baseball, crept out on a limb for this epic struggle by declaring. "This great game will undoubtedly the greatest of all the when it returns by the forefront to proclaim its possibility of ability. I firmly believe that baseball can played in several episodes which must...
...choice he would probably have elected to die as he did, in the forefront of the attack...
...Virginia's Woodrow Wilson. He was for the League of Nations and World Court from the start. He was a Big Navy man throughout the '30s. Though he hoped the U.S. could keep out when War II began, he caught on quicker than most, was in the forefront, of the fight for Neutrality Act repeal, Lend-Lease, Selective Service...
...examination of the files of the Crimson would be interesting to the extent that such a study would reveal whether the paper had run with the herd or been in the forefront in the formulation of campus opinion. My message for the seventieth anniversary is that the Crimson always should lead in the expression of honest opinion. Very sincerely yours, (signed) Franklin D. Roosevelt...