Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plans for drying up the Mexican border have found their way to Washington. One is a request by the Federated Clubwomen of the Imperial Valley, Cal., that Secretary Hughes " close" the border at sundown to persons under 21 years of age, in order to protect their children. The other is a rumor from Mexico City, to the effect that the government is considering establishment of a dry belt 50 miles wide, along the border. So far it is only a rumor...
...grain field." Then the American attaché at Berlin reports: The German government has bought 1,400,000 bushels of wheat from Russia. It is about to be shipped from Black Sea ports. Further reports indicate that thousands of tons of grain are being exported over the Finnish border and from Odessa and Novorossysk on the Black Sea. There can be but one conclusion-that the Soviet government prefers exporting grain to feeding its starving peasants...
...more at peace than at any time in the last decade. The important revolutionists are dead or in enforced retirement; the Villistas are quiet; lesser malcontents alone still pursue their business sacking small villages, pillaging haciendas, or accepting the money of sanguine rebels on the American side of the border. But peace, prosperity and human perfection are not to be expected all at once. The Mexican army, once given official recognition to distinguish it from the rest of the armed citizenry of the republic, and the war office budget have both been reduced materially in the last two years. Railroad...
...sins of the reviewer are legion, so alas! are the provocations thereunto. It may therefore border perilously on the affected to exclaim, "Oh yes, we have been bored and bored but eccovi, here is a book that is different!" Et cetera...
...Chemical Warfare Service. It is now the home of the First Brigade and the Sixth Regiment Field Artillery corps which will help with the work of the summer camp. The Arsenal is completely fitted out with concrete barracks and officers quarters, the reservation covering eight square miles. Two rivers border the grounds furnishing excellent facilities for swimming,-boating, and fishing. In addition there are tennis courts, a track, and a baseball diamond ready for use by the students this summer. According to the present plans each afternoon from 3 until 6 o'clock will be devoted to athletics...