Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usable front half of each hog's pituitary is about the size of a pea. It takes 1,360 of them to make a pound, from which about 1½ grams (a third of a teaspoonful) of ACTH can be extracted in a solution and separated as a fluffy, white powder. The process is remarkably simple. But even with the cooperation of non-Armour stockyards, the Armour Laboratories can get so far only about 125,000 hog pituitaries a week-enough to make five ounces of ACTH. All the hogs slaughtered in the U.S. would not yield much more...
Carry On. All the while, Bertie had his eye on her. In 1947, at his 68th birthday party, he asked his niece to stand up in front of the 170 guests. "Bazy," the Colonel intoned, "tradition has an important part in every organization. And when 15 or 20 years from now, I am no longer [here], Ruth Elizabeth-Bazy-will be carrying on the tradition of [Tribune Dynasty Founder] Joseph Medill...
...morning last week, 1,800 newsboys threw copies of the Los Angeles Independent on 500,000 front lawns for the last time. After a year of publishing his twice-a-week giveaway, Editor & Publisher James Parton announced that his experiment in decentralized city journalism (TIME, Jan. 24) was folding...
...Traditional" houses, built in any one of a dozen old-fashioned styles, were still away out in front. Driving along any street of new, custom-built homes in Los Angeles, the pondering home-builder could see U-shaped ranch houses, French provincials, New England colonials, Pennsylvania Dutch farmhouses and scaled-down copies of Mount Vernon, set in neighborly alignment on 90-or 100-ft lots...
...judgment," Neutra goes on, "but if he supplies his victims with a daily round of tiny or coarse irritations, unwittingly or not, he's a menace. It's the little sore we overlook which later proves malignant. To be used to having a telephone pole in front of your view window does not make it wholesome. Bad acoustics can lead to shouting, and this calls forth an argumentative mood...