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Word: fronted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Hollywood was turning out films about international spies, it was conventional for minor characters in each picture to exhibit abnormal stupidity, thus accenting the shrewdness of the heroes. Last week, a real international spy story spread across U. S. front pages which vividly accented the shrewdness of nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: International Spies | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...planes of Leftist Spain bombed Caude, the Rightist air base near Teruel, last week. Later, Leftist communiqués announced as the result the destruction of 25 Italian Fiat pursuit planes. Near Cedrillas, on the Teruel-to-the-sea front, Leftists reported that the Rightist advance had been checked with the aid of their bombing and strafing aviation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Balance Shifted? | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...ground, last week, Rightist troops straightened out the southern end of their corridor to the sea. At week's end, Catalan Leftist troops were on the offensive near the hydraulic power station at Tremp, on the Catalan front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Balance Shifted? | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...months ago now stands: two for the Opposition, one for the Government. The Opposition victories were hung up in West Fulham, outside London, and in Lichfield, onetime home of famed, blustering Dr. Samuel Johnson. In these contests, although Laborites and Liberals have rejected the idea of a "Popular Front" to oppose Prime Minister Chamberlain, the two parties fortunately managed to put but one candidate in the field. Last week anti-Chamberlain factions bewailed the fact that two Opposition candidates had split the Aylesbury field, but a united front would have meant little change in the result. The Conservative Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One for Chamberlain | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...Trujillo was not going to be any less a dictator in "private life," however, was evident when he nominated loyal Henchman Dr. Jacinto B. Peynado as his successor. Just where Boss Trujillo stands in his henchman's estimation is evident from the neon sign which glitters on the front of Peynado's home. It reads: GOD AND TRUJILLO. Says President-elect Peynado: "It will remain there as long as I live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Henchman In | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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