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Word: fronte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...said the notice, "this will introduce them." But there was no need to be theatrical for this partnership was as familiar to Harvard students as the pump in the Yard and the new lecture hall across the way. Too familiar, perhaps, for countless men would pull the bell out front to see if there really was a nightman ready to fill prescriptions. The nightman has since left, but little else about the store has changed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Billings and Stover: Leeches, Bleaches, and Drugs | 4/21/1948 | See Source »

...poor to get married," he says. "Anyway, I wouldn't want to ask a wife to share the kind of life I lead." Daily he brought his problems to grey-haired Carmen Lyra, a writer of children's books, who sat in her book-lined front parlor and dished out the rocking-chair Communist advice that Mora has followed for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSTA RICA: Commissar in San José | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Nazis moved into their home, banded their arms with the yellow Star of David, sent Ervin's father to the Russian front as a gravedigger for the army. For months, Ervin and his mother lived in a dingy, heatless flat, hidden out by the music loving Swedish Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Play | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...first time, the movie industry will give the public a look at what really goes on back of Hollywood's colossal, glossy front. The look: a series of short "industry propaganda" films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Deglamorization | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Owned the Sow? The feud of the Hatfields and the McCoys is surely one of the great U.S. folk stories. It has sunk into the popular mind with Li'l Abner connotations, a confused impression of moonshiners, hillbillies, revenue officers, and verbs with "a" in front of them ("I don't feel like runnin', I'm a-goin' t'fight"). Actually, the Hatfield-McCoy feud was a tragedy, violent and unrelenting, with its characters, doomed and possessed, living their parts with fixed intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Folk Feud | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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