Word: borderlander
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...abnormal are not necessarily insane." After four days of travel in that very strange borderland, the jury quickly returned to reality: "We find him guilty . . . That is the verdict of all of us." A clerk placed a black cap on the judge's bewigged head, and John Reginald Halliday Christie was sentenced "to suffer death by hanging" and to be "buried in the precincts of the prison...
...GERMANY Borderland Incident...
...menacing face of South Africa's anti-black and anti-British Prime Minister Daniel Malan. John Foster, Tory Under Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, stoutly insisted that Dr. Malan had nothing to do with the government's decision. But Malan hopes to incorporate into South Africa the borderland protectorates of Bechuanaland, Swaziland and Basutoland, and may use the disintegrating tribal system as a pretext to annex the territories forcibly. Said Laborite Wedgwood Benn: "The fact is that in Seretse and Ruth is the focus of the whole problem of Africa...
Under "the threat of a Russian-American war arising out of conflict in the borderland . . . the British, the French and all the other Europeans see that they are placed between the hammer and the anvil." Their real aim now, said Lippmann, is to extricate themselves from the Russian-American conflict...
Professor to President. By 1927 Conant's researches in the borderland between organic and physical chemistry had earned him a solid scientific reputation, and the California Institute of Technology invited him to set up a new biological chemistry department. Anxious to keep Conant, Harvard promoted him to a full professorship, a few years later made him chairman of the chemistry department...