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Word: fronted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman dependent on a husband at the front receives 26? per day from the State if she lives in Paris, only 15? in the provinces. In Paris the allowance per dependent child is 12&3162;, elsewhere 10?, and a soldier at the front gets 22? daily pocket money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Since World War II has caused few casualties in France, the famed chateaux of the Loire are not yet converted into hospitals as they were in World War I. French women last week were actually having a good deal harder time in every way than French troops at the front. In a broadcast to women on their wartime duties which could have been made only in France, Poet-Playwright Jean Giraudoux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Busy! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...help Nazi women stay pretty although they lack an adequate supply of soap, creams and lotions, Beauty Expert Anna Charlotte Romer of the German Labor Front last week offered hints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beauty Hints | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...James W. Fesler, who could hear the weekly broadcast much better in their own front parlor (in the studio the music sounds almost as if it were being played under a blanket), make special weekly train trips to Manhattan to see the Maestro conduct in the fiery flesh. Two Buffalo newlyweds recently made Studio 8-H their Niagara Falls. One Texan chartered a plane to get there. Refugees from Central Europe spend their first two cents on U. S. soil to stamp a letter to NBC asking for passes. Bootleg passes retail at $25 a pair. Last week, when Toscanini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscaninnies | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

From the Washington front, another gun began firing from an unsuspected emplacement. For probably the first time in his checkered career Cyrus Eaton found he had old, reforming Senator George Norris on his side. "The Power Trust." said the frail Senator in a prepared statement, "is caught at its old tricks. ... It happens again that the holding company is robbing its own subsidiaries, in order to enrich itself." Rejoined Willkie: "Completely and absolutely false." Back came George Norris with another blast to the effect that the cost of the stock deal would be reflected in electric rates paid by Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Eaton to the Wars | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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