Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bidding from the soft earth under her cabbages, she fashioned him a sword and enchanted it with runes and bade him be off. So Alvaric set his face toward the Elfin Mountains, whose changeless peaks were the color of forget-me-nots, and in due time passed the frontier of twilight that bordered the fields men knew and was the rampart of Elfland...
...Maxim Gorky understood how to throw dust in the eyes of our government by writing excellent eulogies of Lenin, and was allowed to go abroad. But no sooner had he crossed the Russian frontier than he tore off his mask and showed himself in his true colors. He is now inflaming the Russian peasants and stirring them up to revolt against the Bolshevist government?an activity which cannot be too strongly condemned...
...latest being ex-Premier Sir Robert Borden of Canada. The British Government also called upon the Government of Northern Ireland to appoint their commissioner, but Premier Craig stoutly refused, declaring that "not a yard of our territory will be handed over to a foreign flag," and " if the frontier is attacked, we are entitled to the support of the British Army and Navy to protect our boundary...
...many Italians may not come to the U. S., so they are going to France. More than 100,000 were reported to have moved across the frontier to the South of France since Jan. 1. The French, short of labor, were pleased. It was rumored that Benito was silently encouraging the emigration of Italians to the districts of former Italian Savoy and Nice, wrested from Italy during the days of Napoleon III, in order to prepare the way for any plebiscite that might take place in the future...
...history the value of Professor Turner's contribution to American scholarship needs no comment. "The Rise of the New West" focussed attention on a dominant factor in the development of the United States which had theretofore been largely neglected by historians. A grasping of the full significance of the frontier in American history, its far-reaching economic effects, its faculty of molding national character, its persistent influence in politics, is an achievement of which any scholar may justly feel proud...