Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swithin because it had rained in a few places along the Atlantic Coast on his Day (July 15),* and on day after day thereafter the skies opened, the clouds burst and most of the East from Maine to Georgia was drenched to sogginess. Meteorologists explained that a "cold front" had merely come to a halt at seaboard, meeting warm, moist airs from the sea. This knowledge "was small comfort to marooned motorists in New Jersey, stalled train commuters in New York, flooded manufacturers in Pennsylvania, growers of damaged tobacco in Connecticut, potatoes on Long Island, cotton in Georgia. Big League...
...original design (TIME, May 2), insisted on a new style of lettering on the coin, on changes in the detail of Thomas Jefferson's head on the obverse, on Artist Felix Schlag's redesigning the reverse so as to show Jefferson's home Monticello in front view instead of side view. After dies for a new coin are complete it takes five weeks till enough can be minted for simultaneous release throughout...
...front cover) Weather: Democratic...
Same afternoon, in a front-page notice, the Scripps-Howard tabloid News pointed out that its own presses were printing papers telling in minutes and seconds the time of Hughes's arrival in New York six minutes after it happened. Scowled the News: "Now, if the Times was on the street 27 minutes before the News, it must then follow that the Times was telling about the event before it occurred. This is known, in the parlance of poker and questionable duping of the public in journalism, as 'cold decking...
...English opens across the plains. It ends, 304 pages later, with the Irish resting in the same position at nightfall. Between these episodes Mr. Sheean has packed much historical enlightenment into a little space: pictured the luxury of the court of Louis XV, who traveled to the front with innumerable servants, 600 horses and 28 cooks; given a glimpse of Voltaire and Madame de Pompadour at Etioles; sketched the life history of Maurice de Saxe (best character in the book), royal bastard and master of strategy, who had planned a battle at Fontenoy 13 years before...