Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their skids at Kitty Hawk. ... It was quite impossible for a 12 h.p. motor to lift that plane off the ground. It was launched by a catapult, which consisted of a heavy weight hoisted to the top of a triangular tower and attached by ropes and pulleys to the front of a monorail car running on a wooden track. The plane was balanced on the car, and as the engine revved up, the weight was released. The car hurtled down its track and fell over as the plane became airborne...
...Condon, declared the report, was "one of the weakest links in our atomic security," an associate of "alleged Soviet espionage agents." The report said that Condon was an executive director of the American-Soviet Science Society, an affiliate of the Communist:front National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. The report cited a letter from the FBI dated May 1947, which declared that Condon had been "in contact as late as 1947 with an individual alleged, by a self-confessed Soviet espionage agent, to have engaged in espionage activities with the Russians in Washington, D.C., from...
...Right Wave Length. Clifford presents a serene front to the world and is outwardly patient and smiling at all times. But he is a serious man who gets to the White House early-a habit much admired by early-rising Mr. Truman-and stays late. One of the chief reasons for Clifford's rise has been his methodical practice of meticulously copying down the thoughts of the various men around the President, carefully sorting them out and then presenting them in a manner which suits Harry Truman to a T. As Mrs. Clifford proudly expresses it: "Clark...
...hockey front, Adams defeated Winthrop, 9 to 4, to regain a second place tie with the Puritans. Both the Gold Coasters and Puritan sextets have won five and lost...
...Williams meet Saturday, the team almost sneaked off with a surprise win. On the misty slopes of Greylock the five man squad pulled out in front with first places in both the downhill and the downhill-slalom...