Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge picked up one of his new gift shotguns, strode to his new gun butts (TIME, Aug. 6), broke seven of the first nine clay pigeons that were whirred in front...
...midwinter day in 1900, three men entered the gate in front of Kentucky's capitol at Frankfort and started walking toward the edifice. Halfway through the grounds stands a fountain, the overflow of which had only partly frozen on the path. As the three men turned aside to avoid the sludge, five rifle shots were fired with terrible deliberation and enormous echoes from a lower window of the capitol. One of the men near the fountain collapsed, mortally wounded...
...Republic. None the less the French Republican Government is not an enemy country. King Jean III during the War carried messages and was later allowed to do Red Cross work among "his people." With all to gain and nothing to lose, except his life, he was often in the front line trenches but escaped unscathed...
Equatorial Africa. "Seven lions surrounded our camp. One actually entered the front seat of an automobile parked nearby and another almost chewed up the rear tire. A third lion managed to get at a camera, which was soon reduced to a pulp. It was a thrilling night, but all is well." The experience befell three Boy Scouts now photographing wild animals on the high equatorial plateau just east of Lake Victoria, Africa. The boys-Robert Douglas, 16, of Greensboro, N. C., David Martin, 15, of Austin, Minn., and Douglas Oliver, 15, of Atlanta, Ga., are with Mr. and Mrs. Martin...
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