Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mark is given according to the total number of points. As a result there are always certain men who have been doing well, who would not even need to attend the examination in order to receive a satisfactory grade. It also means that except for men on the border line between two marks the examination has little significance, either as a possible means of raising a mark or of lowering...
...struck horror in the breasts of everyone sensitive enough to experience the shock of useless death. The circumstances of the present outrage are such as to awaken even more intense sympathy. The facts that the victim was accompanied by his family, was a full fifteen miles from the border, and possessed not a trace of alcohol in the car, all combine to awaken popular recognition of an affair, the barest facts of which are hideous...
...doing to rebels-firing them from cannon, killing them on the streets- Amanullah's followers continued to desert him in a steady stream. Last week, accompanied by his "beautiful" wife, Queen Thuraya, and his prodigiously fat Brother Inayatullah and his wife, he fled precipitately over the Indian border. At Bombay, two ambulances stood chugging expectantly at the station. Amanullah, in civilized trousers, looked worried. He was about to become a father for the seventh time. Inayatullah was expecting, too, for the fourteenth time. But the expected did not happen. The two ladies reached the Taj Mahal Hotel without...
...should go bad again, President Portes Gil persuaded General Calles not to go off, as he had planned, on a European vacation this summer. Also, though Peace was thoroughly restored, a regiment of Mexican soldiers were assigned "as a courtesy" to escort U. S. Ambassador Morrow to the Texas border on his way home to give his daughter in marriage to U. S. Hero Lindbergh...
...Graf Zeppelin made a sweet passage from Friedrichshafen (on the German-Swiss border), down the Rhone Valley, across the Gulf of Lions, toward Gibraltar. Then the crankshaft of one of her five engines broke. Near Cartagena, Spain, Commander Eckener turned her back towards Friedrichshafen...