Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pobo Mountain front, just northeast of Teruel which has been quiet since March, Rightist troops under General Jose Varela seized the Leftist key stronghold, Escorihuela, prepared for an offensive against the Teruel-Sagunto highway. On the north Catalan front, brisk Leftist counterattacks regained several strategic villages and Barcelona restored contact with "the Leftist Lost Battalion" (43rd Division). "We prefer to fight where we are with our backs to the French frontier!" announced its commander...
Although five of the Crimson players have never handled a hockey stick before, the team is expected to display a united front before the Vassar onslaught. The Harvard attack will center about Richard S. Smith, formerly of the Oxford field hockey squad. Of the Crimson eleven, five are Oxford graduates who played the game in England in their undergraduate days...
...Catalonian front Rightist troops advanced 40 miles along the mountainous French border to within ten miles of the tiny State of Andorra. They controlled at week's end nine of the twelve main roads from Spain to France. Barcelona Leftists again purged suspected Rightist sympathizers, two cinema theatres being necessary to hold one night's haul. Leftist organ La Vanguardia philosophized that such measures "repugnant as they are to a spirit of liberalism, are justified by the circumstances...
Small, deep-voiced Dr. Herbert Fox, comparative pathologist of the University of Pennsylvania, studied the incidence of arthritis in animals at the Philadelphia Zoo, found this joint disease in the front legs of hyenas and leopards, the hind legs of antelope, deer and wild pigs, the necks and hands of gorillas. He concluded that in mammals (including man) the parts put to most strenuous use are the most susceptible to arthritis...
...currents. The invention of engines provided aviation with a shortcut, proved Leonardo partly wrong. But at the same time man did study the air, developed four types of motorless flying: gliding (coasting downward on still air); slope soaring (on rising air currents along the shoulder of a hill); cold front soaring (on the brow of a thunderhead); and thermal soaring (on rising currents of air in the open). So specialized are these techniques that a skillful soarer looks upon power flyers with the same superiority that a sailboat skipper feels towards a motor-boater...