Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith and his faithful wife, Thelma, were bundled into a big black police car for an exciting ride to Baton Rouge. Another car in front and one behind were filled with deputies. Two motorcycle policemen led the way, a squadron of press cars followed. The motorcade raced through traffic at 60 m.p.h. with all sirens wide open...
Many a European observer has guessed that the Nazis have two interlocking plans for war in Europe this summer: first a lightning-strike and then, if it fails, a deadlock in front of their defenses on the Western Front. If they win their Blitzkrieg they can take what they want; if they effect a deadlock, they can still bargain for concessions in return for Europe's peace...
...Mongol Army of 250,000 and equipped it with modern military gadgets-artillery, tanks, machine guns, righting planes. The Mongol Army's greatest accomplishment has been to keep some 350,000 of Japan's crack troops and much of its best equipment tied up, far from the front...
...rather than later by courtmartial. A pacifist might exhaust every means, legal or otherwise, of avoiding war service, and still be forced into the trenches. The Handbook lists a series of noncooperating steps which he might take, The list ends: "8. Go abroad but refuse to go to the front. 9. Go to the front but refuse to kill the enemy...
Progressive architects regard the capital of the U. S. A. as a gleaming shirt front, dignified but stuffed. During its last great construction years the design of Government buildings was a monopoly of a few urbane neoclassicists, notably the late Cass Gilbert (Supreme Court, U. S. Chamber of Commerce) and the late John Russell Pope (Archives Building, National [Mellon] Gallery). Last week an open architectural competition brought forth the first modern design ever chosen for a national building in Washington. Its subject : a new Smithsonian Gallery...