Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...virtual protectorate over Albania, and is helping-nay, forcing -that little republic to arm against Jugoslavia. Similarly the Jugoslavs are preparing to meet the attack. But last week the status quo was almost certainly one of preparation, not of mobilization. Only an irresponsible overt act on the frontier seemed capable of kindling swift...
...toward further effort. Due partly to petty jealousies and partly to his own intractable character Owen eventually gave up all interest in New Lanark. He attempted to form a similar colony at New Harmony, Indians but it failed completely, one obvious reason being the inharmonious state of the American frontier...
Along the Germano-Polish frontier heavy earth charges of dynamite sent clods, cement and steel hurtling...
...Polish frontier guards could not conceal their satisfaction-nor Germans their discomfiture. The hurtling fragments meant that the Germans were carrying out their promise to the Allied Council of Ambassadors (TIME, Dec. 20) that they would destroy the German fortifications against Poland, Germany having entered the League of Nations...
Denver, ridden by a newspaper war between Gambler-Publisher Fred G. Bonfils with a morning and evening Post and the Scripps-Howard syndicate with a morning and evening News (TIME, Feb. 14), continued in its crazy aspect of wildcat frontier town. Last week the Post's frantic efforts for circulation included: A spectacle to signalize the Denver auto show: "The next thing on the Denver Post's free amusement program, ladies and gentlemen,* will be a thrilling leap for death by 75 world-famous Autoarabs, the tumbling Gas Anns, the Leaping Lenas of motordom's circus world...