Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occurred to President Lowell that the dining halls of today might be furnished with similar china, using the same border of flowers and fruits, with new engravings of Harvard scenes in the center; but the cost of the engravings was found to be prohibitive...
More tribulation struck the Matto Grosso Expedition (TIME, June 1 et ante) on the Brazilian-Bolivian border last week. John S. Clarke Jr.. one of the backers and leaders, shot a jaguar. In the excitement another member of the party shot...
...Collier's Weekly James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired pugilist, wrote about his spring visit to Russia. Excerpt: "One seemed to lose one's iden tity the moment the Russian border was crossed. You began to feel the meaning of: Oh, to be lord of one's self, unencumbered with a name...
...that the actual pacification of Libya is imminent. Italy has always protested that the southern boundary of Libya adjoining French Africa has never been definitely fixed. French authorities have insisted with some justice that since Italy has not been able to control the territory within 100 miles of the border, the appointment of a boundary commission would be a waste of time, but with the capture of Muktar and the dispersal of the Senussites, the boundary question looms large...
...last week an Italian cabinetmaker named Rafael Bendandi, whose avocation is seismology, announced that the morrow would bring a violent earthquake to the Euro-Asiatic border, that America would feel repercussions. Next day U. S. seismographs recorded a great shock somewhere in Asia. California quivered with minor shocks...