Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Traditionally founded by St. Marinus as a Christian refuge from the persecution of Diocletian, A. D. 284-305. †Area, 38 sq. mi. Frontier length, 24 mi. Population, 12,027 (1920). San Marino has a treaty of friendship with Italy, and extradition treaties with Britain, the Netherlands...
...when he said the trucks were to be used for pay roll transport, the agents of the Department of Justice began to sleuth. . . . Early one evening last week the trucks rumbled forth, were boarded by 174 "laborers," set out for the Mexican border. At Dalzura, three miles from the frontier, A. A. Hopkins of the Department of Justice pounced with a detachment of well armed operatives, arrested the "laborers," seized the trucks which contained 400 Springfield rifles, 155,000 rounds of ammunition. On examining his captives, Mr. Hopkins dubbed General Enrique Estrada, onetime Mexican Secretary of War, "ringleader...
...achieve broken collar bones, skiers leap at 90 miles an hour into snowdrifts where many a hip is twisted awry. Last week Sport, most ogreish of modern Deities, lured Frãulein Elfriede Lucker of Dresden and four male companions up the snow-swept Bratschenkopf, near the Austro-German frontier...
...that nation to whose citizens her face is familiar through mammoth cosmetic advertisements and syndicated press matter-the U. S. Meanwhile King Ferdinand of Rumania set out to visit Paris, Switzerland, Rome, the Vatican. Despatches reported an allegedly not serious clash between potent bands of Bulgarian bandits and Rumanian frontier guards at Aflar and Dobrudja. One Eva Maneva, little known outside the violent bandit aristocracy of Bulgaria, was found in the vicinity of Dobrudja with her head hacked off by a bayonet...
Prowling far into the northern Punjab, prowling further into the remote North-West Frontier Province of India, irrepressible impresarios of moviedom purchased last week at Rawalpindi, a building which they deemed suitable for a cinema theatre...