Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alluding scornfully to the present puny strength of Austria, Il Duce rapped: "We are not anxious about our northern frontier. Hannibal is not at our gates. Neither is Monsignor Seipel...
Bucharest. In that eventuality we shall hold in readiness an army of perhaps 100,000 men at the Bulgarian frontier and deploy it to the advantage of our northern ally (Russia...
...history of Tyrol is among the most disreputable in post-war history, It is an ungrounded belief that this little handful of people can harm Italy. When Tyrol was incorporated into Italy in 1919, the only reason given was the advantage of strategic frontier. Mussolini has taken this as an opportunity to show European countries that he means business. This pooh-poohing of the League is also shown by the Corfu incident...
...insult another was speedily added when a Budapest junk dealer was permitted to bid in for 1,800 pengoes ($300) a quantity of scrap parts which could not be positively identified as identical with or different from those discovered on New Year's Day at the Austro-Hungarian frontier by an Austrian customs official but since then exclusively in the hands of Hungarians...
Thus, the spirit of contemporary U. S., according to Author Merz. In the 18th and 19th Centuries, the changing frontier provided a healthy outlet for this up-and-going urge. But today the frontier has disappeared, the Indians are in sideshows or oil fields, the cowboys are in dude ranches or vaudeville. What does Mr. Average Citizen do to relieve his tension? He goes exploring in his automobile, knowing perfectly well that he will see familiar filling stations, hot dogs, kewpie dolls, cigaret signboards, and a thousand explor ers who will say with him: "Well, the traffic sure is heavy...