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Word: fronte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upshot of these and the rest of the replies is that most of those of you who participated read your favorite departments first, a smaller, stauncher number read front to back, and a perverse few read TIME back to front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 21, 1949 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Actually it was an old story, but the spy-thriller was good for a one-day splash on U.S. front pages. Repatriated Americans on the Gripsholm had brought back most of the story to the U.S. in 1943, it had been published at least three times in the Japanese press since the war, and nine months ago the U.S. magazine Plain Talk carried it in full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Timely Reminder | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Early one day this week, the two Noble Guards in front of the Pope's private apartment clanked their halberds as they came to attention. Pope Pius appeared on the threshold, solemnly robed in a red velvet shoulder cape and a gold-embroidered stole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: When God Is in Exile | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Outside the house, under red-blossomed camellia trees, old women were cutting dandelions for spring greens-and coarser weeds for nanny goats carefully tethered by the front porch. Nearby were bamboo groves where old plants are grown for fuel and new shoots are cut like asparagus in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: IN RURAL JAPAN | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...black and brackish; the city's tiny, overworked fire department screamed up & down streets until its sirens threatened to drown out the busy whistles of the gaily bannered river steamers. On Saturday, one of the bantam-sized fire trucks struck and killed a young woman pedestrian in front of the Oikwan. As it roared on toward its blaze without even slowing down, enraged police and soldiers raced ridiculously after it on foot, brandishing rifles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Exile In Canton | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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