Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greek border where it adjoins Bulgaria and Albania is held and patrolled by tough, experienced troops under spirited officers. Armed with basic infantry weapons up to mortars, the troops ride the mountain passes astride husky mules from Missouri. Sunk back 15 to 60 miles behind the Greek frontier regiments are the support divisions, eight in the field and one around Athens, a total...
...sects in America tended to become churches and churches to become sects. The Lutherans, Calvinists and Anglicans took root mainly in the settled areas, ministering to limited communities of their own faithful. The sectarians-e.g., the Baptists and Methodists and Disciples of Christ-were pushing out into the frontier where America was in the making...
...frontier settled down, they too began to build stone churches with stained-glass windows, and adjust their forms and liturgies to the traditional patterns of the middle class. Gradually a new, American kind of Protestantism came into being, a blur of church and sect, of institutionalism and enthusiasm, still bearing the tolerant, "do-gooding," democratic marks of the frontier...
Second, the plebescite must be run by an impartial committee. We would suggest a committee made up of representatives of the other five Houses, headed by the Lowell delegate, since Lowell maintains a common frontier with both Leverett and Winthrop...
...Under these conditions I favor passage of an "Aid to Indigent Professors Act" which would envisage that rapidly-growing class which has always occupied a position on the subsistence frontier and which has recently (if I may vary the metaphor) been caught squarely in the inflation scissors...