Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sooner did Prince Carol arrive in Nice than M. Titulescu, desiring to avoid all contact with him, moved himself and suite across the border from French Mentone to nearby Italian San Remo. Good natured Dr. Stresemann then kept the negotiations going by motoring back and forth between these neighboring towns. Prince Carol, not provided with papers permitting him to enter Italy, could not and possibly did not desire to make contact with the Foreign Minister of the Rumanian Government with which he is at odds...
...work, will try to intimidate such liquor operators as have not already gotten their shipments through to Houston and Kansas City from Mexico, Cuba, Canada. Naturally enough, the Houston convention will receive the most attention, not solely because it is Democratic but because it is so near a border and because Texas has always out-thirsted Kansas. It is not likely, however, that the persons, baggage or hotel rooms of delegates themselves will be searched...
...line in the mountains of Turkestan. Thence he would pass by caravan over more mountains and steppes to remote Vyernyi, topping the uplands of Semirechensk, and distant some 150 miles from the Chinese frontier, 1,800 miles as the crow flies from Moscow, and 500 miles from the border of India. Thus ringed by remoteness, Lev Davidovich Trotsky will yet have the companionship of his wife and son, both voluntary sharers...
Maurice Ravel heads the list of contemporary French composers. He was born in a mountain village near the Spanish border, went early to Paris, where the music of the Parisians took possession of his soul. The War also took him and made him a truck-driver...
Taking four officers and three non-commissioned officers he crossed the Dutch border in automobiles and swept up to the gate of Count von Bentincks castle. Guards objected. Col. Lea's eloquence and the irresistible atmosphere of the Americans prevailed. The great gates opened. Within the castle a shrewd secretary appeared. Parley. The Kaiser was not immediately available. Would the Americans mind waiting just a little? The Americans were disinclined to wait, but already they had delayed too long. Dutch guards, grimly armed and in increasing numbers, tramped in from the chill night. Col. Lea and his supporters were...