Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in the Pacific, regarded for several years as the most vulnerable sea front of the U. S., four of the Navy's 15 battleships, two of its 31 cruisers, will stay for overhaul and to see that Japan does not forget its manners. The standing force of submarines, destroyers and planes in the Pacific Islands will also remain undisturbed...
Rightist long-range objectives appeared to be Barcelona, Loyalist capital, and Tarragona, to the south, from 60 to 80 miles away. Many ranges of hills lie between the front and the objectives. More important than anything else, however. Generalissimo Franco hopes to provide his ally. Dictator Benito Mussolini, with a first-class victory before January 11, when Dictator Mussolini meets British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at Rome. Dictator Mussolini wants very much to persuade Mr. Chamberlain to grant Generalissimo Franco belligerent rights, most valuable of which would be the right to blockade. After that Loyalist Spain, already near famine, could...
...cast, including Actors Niven, Basil Rathbone and Michael Brooke, are reserve officers who expected to be called to the colors before they finished. Most of the air shots in Dawn Patrol were lifted intact from the 1930 edition. Good shot: Courtney, whose minute squadron on the Marne front has been losing a man a day for weeks, reacting with an absent-minded nod, while he reads a newspaper, to the news that an old friend has been killed...
Principal Attig quietly finished his school day, walked home, drove off in his car to a railroad crossing. When the train came by he jumped in front...
...solid ground of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye" (Wordsworth) is the perpetual slogan on the front cover of Nature, which Writer H. G. Wells has called "one of the best newspapers in the world." A weekly published in London, Nature is an international clearing house for major scientific research, the most famed scientific journal in existence. Scientists all over the world grab copies of Nature from the postman much as cowboys grab for their favorite pulps...