Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, the U.S. could not feel so sure. Its supposed monopoly of A-bombs was gone. The hydrogen bomb, when & if it is developed, made the nation's own shoreline for the first time in 135 years a perilous frontier. Even if both Russia and the U.S. began working on the H-bomb simultaneously, Russia would have a lead. It would have a lead because in the kind of war that might wipe out entire cities and whole armies at one surprise stroke, the U.S. would strike only if struck first. The element of surprise would always...
...professor in Boston, who was delighted to oblige. "Imagine," purred the Bostonian, "my arm extended with the speed of thought from this cradle of the free school on the Atlantic shores, over the Alleghenies, over the 'Father of Waters' to give you a cordial greeting ... on the frontier of civilization...
Denver was not a frontier for long. By 1902 it had 37 schools-and its rising school population was beginning to outgrow them. Stately Superintendent Aaron Gove added sewing and cooking to the still rigid curriculum; roughriding Lucius Hallett bulled through a $6,000,000 bond issue to build three new high schools and enlarge ten other buildings; under able Jesse Newlon, teachers finally won a single salary scale. During the 1920s the city saw 26 new schools rise up all over town. But the race between the rising buildings and rising enrollments never seemed to stop. When 43-year...
...Iron Hand. In sharp contrast, Acheson then staked out a second Asian area in tougher language. The nation's defense, said he, rests on a North Pacific frontier running along the Aleutian Islands to Japan and down through the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) to the Philippines. In case of attack on this line, he said, the U.S. would defend all these positions. (For Korea, hanging perilously close to the most naked of Russian ambitions, the Secretary offered only a vaguer acknowledgment of "responsibility...
...effect, the U.S. policy along the island frontier is: Bear, Keep...