Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broad white banner lit by glaring portable searchlights. Modlin was given until 6 a. m. to hoist a white flag of surrender, but failed to do so, and heavy German bombardment at once began. This continued until 7 a. m., when Modlin finally hoisted the white flag. In front of Warsaw the "stop firing" order had been given on both sides for 9 a. m. and fire punctually stopped, but due to some misunderstanding the Poles resumed fire with rifles, grenades, mine throwers and machine guns at 11 a. m. Heavy German artillery opened up in a final series...
...debate in Parliament, every good Londoner got the allusion. Britain's bungling, War-born Ministry of Information was still being lambasted in the House of Commons. And the Times head was a plea for help from baffled editors whose effort to get news from the front had been balked by official red tape...
...skullcaps) and black ties, stepped into the gutter to let upperclassmen pass, went to the President's Reception to dance with 250 debutantes. University of Pennsylvania's freshmen dined together for the-first time in a new commons, afterwards-paraded to Benjamin Franklin's statue in front of Weightman Hall, then to a rally on Franklin Field. At Harvard the big news was that Cambridge University's famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards (The Meaning of Meaning) would set sail from England this week to be a visiting lecturer. Not to be outdone, Yale announced that...
...split a double-header with the Cards. The second day, beloved Bucky Walters, the renovated third-baseman who had pitched 27 victories for Cincinnati this year, suffered a 4-to-o shutout. Then, on the third day, came Our Boys' last chance to nail the pennant in front of the homefolks. With three games left to play they could still clinch it in Pittsburgh, by winning two games of their final series against the Pirates. But the Reds had been shut out in the last two games, had failed to score a run in 24 innings; their fielding...
Germany is the loudest, longest-winded propagandist on the Fourth Front, carrying out the Hitler-inspired rule: "Make it simple, tell them often, make it burn." London is next, then Paris. U. S. S. R.'s mighty Radio Moscow is hard to hear...