Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year that Congress passed its first law. the settlers on the U. S. frontier, instead of hiring contractors to build their houses, used to invite neighbors from miles around...
...Allan Roy Dafoe. a stocky little grey-haired practitioner who has delivered some 1,500 children in frontier Ontario, leaped nimbly into his clothes when Ovila timidly rapped at the door. In the doctor's Dodge they drove back to the Dionne house...
...rough, nickel-loded, forest-fuzzed Canadian frontier at the east end of Lake Nipissing bulged large with spring's fertility last week. The full moon with Venus, Mars and Saturn accompanying swelled pompously across the midnight sky. And in a lamplit farmhouse near Callander a buxom French-Canadian woman of 24 whimpered with the unusual fullness of her womb. She, too, had three attendants-her aunt, another goodwife who had borne 17 children, and her husband Ovila Dionne. Upstairs in bed were the two boys and three girls of the Dionnes. Four years in his grave lay their sixth...
Lille, Calais, Valenciennes and the other manufacturing towns between the English Channel and the Belgian frontier have been more deeply hit by Depression than any other part of France. Their mills are empty and their tempers short. Factories are being dismantled, foreign workmen deported and the local Press is gagged against publishing any accounts of labor troubles...
...process of foregoing the title, the power may be vastly increased. The members of this family have always been uniquely international. When their vast Lorraine estates lay upon soil politically German they attached to their name the prefix von and turned their eyes toward Berlin: when the political frontier shifted under their rich deposits of coal and iron, they altered the prefix to de and looked to Paris...