Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner had U. S. troops dug in on the Western Front in World War I than they started a newspaper. The Stars & Stripes made fun of lice and mud, pricked the vanity of many a martinet, nurtured young journalists like Alexander Woollcott, Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams, who were later to bloom luxuriantly in Manhattan's literary gardens...
Last week Nazi efficiency, aping U. S. individualism, had established not one but ten newspapers for German soldiers fighting World War II. Some were published at the front, others in Berlin and Breslau for front-line distribution. All were strictly edited by agents of the Ministry for Propaganda; they gave news of the war but featured drawings and articles by soldiers, concentrated on entertainment...
...responsible. The No. 1 U. S. rayon producer, American Viscose Corp., had a yearly fibre capacity of 25,000,000 lbs. at the end of 1938, will have 65,000,000 lbs. by spring 1940. Fortnight ago it announced that it will build a new yarn plant at Front Royal, Va. to up its capacity...
...home front in Flushing, L. I, heavy-handed Harvey Dow Gibson (Fair board chairman & potent Manufacturers Trust Co. president) wooed U. S. exhibitors. To entice them in again next year...
...purpose of the undergraduate faculty system, which was conceived at Harvard and has since spread over the nation, is to help Freshmen and new students with scholastic difficulties and to offer teaching experience to the regular student," the U.C.L.A. Daily Bruin commented in a front-page article...