Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legion of Honor. For some months he has resided at Paris, the swashbuckling idol of expatriate Italian and Spanish antiFascists. Last week he put in the field 400 armed companions disguised as mountaineers who assembled in Southern France and attempted to march in force across the Spanish border...
...After leaving Winnipeg, Canada, Her Majesty's train recrossed the border to Minneapolis. There Queen Marie slipped away after her official reception to a little Rumanian church barely able to accommodate 100 people. Kneeling, she prayed and afterward conversed with members of the congregation in Rumanian...
...years ago Samuel Gompers died on the Mexican Border. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise performed the ceremony for the dead at the Elks Club in Manhattan. Then they buried him in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, at Tarrytown, N. Y., where the Very Rev. Oscar F. R. Treder, dean of the Cathedral of the Incarnation, at Garden City, L. I., draped his coffin with the white lambskin apron of a Master Mason. As the frozen lumps of earth clumped down on his coffin they seemed to boom up a phrase he once cried: "I have almost had my very soul burned...
Traditions--and the comic strips--make the mother-in-law the source of most quarrels. Thus the position of England in regard to Canada and the United States. The latter two countries have, without a doubt, given a shining example of good neighborliness to the world. Border relations have been remarkably free from petty bickerings; Canadians and the citizens of this country have been tactfully respectful of each others wishes. Therefore when a guest comes into one country--as Lord Darling, noted English justice, came into Canada and makes allusions not quite flattering to the other, he raises no antipathy...
...moved much horizontally. The others slowly slid, with haltings and renewed sliding, toward the Pacific. The great mountain arcs of the Circum-Pacific-Zone were born and slowly gained in strength as the continental fragments slipped down over the earth's body. During the process of folding along the border of the invaded Pacific, basaltic floods were pouring out through the tension-cracks of the continental interior. The fissures, through which the lavas rose, became sealed with frozen basalt...A new, heavy, deep-lying crust became ready to receive the water running in from the ancient Pacific Ocean; the Atlantic...