Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battle against the microscopic forces of disease is one that never ceases. But the returns from the front appear so rarely in newspaper headlines that the winning of skirmishes for humanity often goes unrecognized. The notable sally made by the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission during the past few weeks escaped notice until a minor epidemic alarmed those of the public who still remember ravages caused by the disease...
When the clerk of the U. S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah, began to read the court minutes one morning last week, no one took much notice of a plain middle-fortyish woman who sat on the front bench, apparently listening. Most eyes were engaged in watching Judge Tillman Davis Johnson settle himself behind his bench for a morning's work. Judge Johnson is 69 and not undistinguished in appearance. Few of the people in the courtroom even noticed the plain lady when she rose from her seat and approached the bench with a folded magazine...
What was to the bargees merely an unwarranted disturbance of early morning comfort, was, to newspapers, material for front pages desecrated by a lack of transoceanic flights and prizefights. The man so scornfully described by the lazy fellows, was in reality James J. Walker, Mayor of New York, who had been abroad for two months. Surely the adjectives applied by the bargees were out of order; they had read, no doubt, in spare moments, accounts of the Mayor's whiskey-tippling in England, his beer-drinking in Germany, his liquid luncheons in Italy, his wine-bibbing in France...
...Kane '22 are intimately associated with steady advances, long passes, and blocked kicks in the account of the former encounter; the names of Wilson, Olson, Hook, Koransky, and a hitherto unknown Sophomore, Welch, will long be connected with slashing off tackle runs, deceptive backfield maneuvers, and a towering front line defense in the mind of all who witnessed the second Stadium clash of east and mid-West. In almost every respect Saturday was the reversal of the 1921 battle; it was this time the Harvard eleven which never got started offensively on the defense; and it was the Hoosier backs...
While the Architectural School has taken over the front-part of the old Museum, the semi-circular lecture-room at the back has been retained by the College for lectures on Fine Arts and allied subjects...