Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...northern front, rain continued to bog down all large-scale attacks. Bands from the Leftist "Lost Battalion," entrenched and virtually surrounded in the Pyrenees south of Lourdes, France, sallied forth in guerilla attacks, made no appreciable gains. As further encouragement to Rightist Franco the Vatican, following 18 months of semi-official recognition of his Government, this week granted him full diplomatic recognition...
Doctors have not been able to prevent or cure microcephaly. A few bold surgeons tried splitting too solid skulls lengthwise from forehead to nape, and holding the halves slightly apart with temporary metal wedges. But baby heads grow most from front to rear. Such operations gave room for a short time only for the side-thrust of the growing brain, and most patients shortly died...
...because of his magnificent stretch run in the Kentucky Derby. Through the rain and mist, 25,000 dripping spectators watched Dauber start unostentatiously, as a well-mannered Whitney colt would be expected to do. But going into the backstretch, Dauber began to make a spectacle of himself-not in front, but trailing behind (in next to last place in the field of nine), ten lengths in back of the leaders, Menow and Fighting Fox. Gloom settled over the stands. Even stretch-running Dauber could never make up that distance. Suddenly a roar went up. "Look at Dauber!" The Du Pont...
...front cover...
...cast-iron constitution, one that can digest a season in Palm Beach, too many rich luncheons at 21 and the Colony, nights out at the Stork and El Morocco and the constant battering of debutantes who are determined to get into the movies via the front page...