Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirit of the amateur. Not one, but three, may raise their heads and walk proudly among the colleges. There is little fear that the major ills of which the Carnegie report treats will become epidemic. They have long been rampant, and the cycle points downward. Misapprehension that the frontier football spirit will ricochet back to the Eastern seaboard is not so much the belief of intelligent students of the game, as that the Eastern attitude may soon go West. The trail has already been blazed, and while older institutions of higher learning continue to rigidly interpret the amateur code...
...Consider whether all territory adjacent to the frontier in which Hungarians number more than 50% of the population should not revert to Hungary. Exception: Czechoslovakia will not consider giving up the vital Danube port of Bratislava, once Hungary's Pressburg...
...Determine whether the rights of Hungarians left in Czechoslovakia after revision of the frontier could not be adequately safeguarded by allowing them to elect a representative who would serve with the rank of Minister in the Czechoslovak Cabinet...
...Owing to the financial effort demanded by the restoration of France's devastated regions, the general plan for a defensive system could not be formulated until two years ago. The program involves the construction of roads, railways, underground telegraph systems, and the stocking of frontier posts with engineering and artillery equipment. "Not only are old forts being brought up to date, but new works are to be constructed as close as possible to the frontier . . . especially in the newly recovered territory. The most important features of the plan will be executed within 18 months. "I wish to take this...
Last July two divisions of ragged Nationalist troops swept through Tao-chow-ting on shaggy Chinese horses, burning, shooting. Three thousand fear-crazed Mohammedans were killed. Hundreds of other Moslems, fleeing along the Hsiat-sang valley toward Tibet were shot down by Tibetan frontier guards...