Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under 40 or over 40 to fight in the next war, that there may be no dearth of fathers. Excellent! Let the next war be won by women past 45, that absolutely useless class! Having been for the last decade a widow in this group, fighting at the front would be a welcome diversion...
...opening her dikes to flood a large part of the country. In the north countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, not only have there been increased expenditures for arms, but the four small nations have long been banded together as the Oslo Powers to present a united front to the world in general and to aggressors in particular. The idea was that where the voice of one small nation might not carry far, the voice of four would...
...when two days after the Stockholm meeting, the diplomatic representatives in Germany of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark went to the German Foreign Office to present their countries' replies to German State Secretary Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker, the united Oslo Powers front was broken. Sweden, Finland, Norway thanked Herr Hitler for his interest in their welfare, reaffirmed their neutrality, politely declined the Führer's offer. Denmark replied that the Danish Government would be happy to discuss the terms of a non-aggression treaty with the German Government...
...motormakers are probably two months off, for the auto companies have enough steel on hand to last until large scale production begins on 1940 models and want to be sure their big buying is done at the bottom, not on the way down. Aggressive National Steel Co., always up front among the price cutters, admitted that it didn't "know what the price is," was reported taking fill-in business from all comers to be rolled in one lot when enough of it accumulates. Ponderous U. S. Steel Corp. first disregarded the buzzing and biting of the mosquitoes, denied...
...Museum's new home, designed by Architects Philip L. Goodwin and Edward D. Stone, was evidence that the Museum can mix its own concrete: a million-dollar building on a million-dollar lot, with a sheer, severe front of plate glass, white marble and thermolux (a translucent sandwich made of spun glass insulator between two sheets of plate glass), galleries with collapsible walls, library, auditorium, projection rooms and roof terrace. The chairs and desks which furnish it (by van der Rohe, Breuer, Aalto, et al.) are in themselves a show of industrial fine...