Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Physically potent, the Andorran Government (composed exclusively of hardy mountaineers) led young men of Andorra's best and hardiest families against the soft Spanish strikers, easily broke the strike, kicked its leaders across Andorra's frontier into Spain...
Among contemporary historical authors, Professor Turner held a prominent position. In the "American Nation" series, edited by A. B. Hart '80, Eaton professor of the Science of Government, emeritus, he contributed a volume entitled "The Rise of the New West" and in 1920 his "Frontier in American History" was published. He also edited "The Correspondence of French Ministers and Agents in the United States, 1791-1797", as well as various collections of American documents...
...Turner's great book, "The Frontier in American History", which appeared some forty years ago, revolutionized historical writing. Not only did it establish the frontier as the chief factor in moulding life in the New World, but also it emphasized the social and economic aspects of history. This novel conception did much to discredit the old school of writers that had considered the past as a series of wars and political campaigns. The work of Dr. Turner, more than any other single cause, put American History on a scientific basis. He had the rare combination of fertility in ideas coupled...
...carved and brightly painted Moorish ceilings, Bristol-board flagstones, marble columns painted on cerulean blue walls, and wrought-iron Venetian lamps, which decorate its lavishly gilded Italian interior. Russell Hall, happily but belatedly removed, has given way to a successor which calls to mind the stern lines of a frontier block-house. At least there is architectural variety...
...next nine months alone the new Ministry of Defense will spend $600,000,000, according to budget estimates published last week. Secret, France's defense program is nevertheless known to consist of a series of fortresses, largely subterranean, strung like pearls along almost her entire land frontier from the English Channel to the Mediterranean. Subways connect large key forts with smaller posts so that men and munitions may be rushed from fort to fort beneath the poppies of a smiling countryside...