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Word: fronte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...halfway up the Widner steps before he heard the singing from Appleton, faint through window and curtain, dropping back to him from the library's front. He stood a moment, hearing the whole church catch up a hymn and call back to the choir. There was no money here, no colored lights, no tinsel; Vag had the Yard to himself for a time, alone with leafless trees and space and darkness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...opponent out. Instead, the retired champion nursed the mop-haired San Franciscan along with blood-drawing lefts until the clock showed 2:45 of the eighth round. Then, as if on cue, he hit Valentino with a vicious left hook and a chopping right, neatly dropping his victim in front of the ringside seat of new N.B.A. Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles. Murmured Charles, who had finished Valentino in eight rounds himself last October, "Man, that Joe looks awful good; he sure is still a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Still a Good Man | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...entire case instead of only one can. He persuaded a grocer on Manhattan's Third Avenue to keep a list of daily "specials" next to the telephone so that clerks taking orders by phone could suggest extra items. Concluded Cummings: salesmen need constructive sales suggestions from the front office, instead of a flood of letters demanding "more sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: Meet the Boss | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Heading Huber's list of "most active Communist front organizations" were the International Workers Order and the American Slav Congress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley Calls Red Charge 'A Smear' | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Professor Harlow Shapley last night referred to an accusation that he is a prominent Communist-front sympathizer as "just another smear" and added that "these charges don't mean much any more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley Calls Red Charge 'A Smear' | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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