Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price of $100,000 on his bullet-shaped head, while Chiang Kai-shek carried on his ten years of futile war against the Communists, Chu Teh now has under him a force of about 150,000 fervent Communist soldiers, another 300,000 embattled farmers, operating behind the Japanese front lines in Shansi and Shantung provinces...
...coming down the homestretch of the 1938 horse-racing circuit, 28-year-old Johnny Longden of Calgary, Canada, and 24-year-old Johnny Adams of Tola, Kans. led the field in a neck & neck race for the jockey championship of the year. Solemn, sharp-faced Jockey Longden was in front with 222 winners; jolly pink-faced Jockey Adams, last year's champion, close behind with 208. Both were racing at the Tanforan track outside San Francisco, riding six or seven mounts a day, and flying down to Mexico for Sunday racing at Agua Caliente in their attempt to chalk...
...five of them long shots) at Bay Meadows one afternoon last spring-a feat that only seven U. S. jockeys have ever accomplished. Others who had seen him break a leg during a race at Del Mar last summer, marveled at his ability to be out in front again after being dismounted for two months. A barrel-chested pee-wee (4 ft. 8 in.) who learned to ride on the Western "bush"' tracks (county fairs), still lives in a trailer and looks as clumsy as Ichabod Crane on a horse. Johnny Adams has an extraordinary flair for getting...
...were selling some rare, internationally compounded medicine instead of reprinted classics. Printed all over the world, Limited Editions books include such native volumes as The Psalms of David, being printed in Palestine, Oedipus Rex, being printed in Greece. The Analects of Confucius, printed in Shanghai, reads from back to front, is boxed in carved Chinese redwood. In France, "the owner of a paper mill seeks 100,000 chemises (and diapers, and castoff socks)" in order to make a paper which will "give you delight in its appearance and in its feel...
...successor should be built in a place as close to the Hygiene Building as possible. There are three prominent possibilities. The first is the territory from the Hasty Pudding Club to the corner, across the street from the Hygiene Building. Another spot would be on Holyoke Place in front of Lowell House, The third and most likely possibility would be the University parking-lot on Mount Auburn Street. While the first would occasion the demolition of buildings and the second the defacement of the Lowell House entrance, the third would only require the utilization of a convenient outdoor parking...