Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that Britain is at present refusing visas to U. S. newspaper reporters, who wish to visit Palestine, where Arabs and Jews are disputing a mutual homeland? And India where frontier battles have been steadily hushed...
...threat of outbreak and violence to remain poised over the heads of Palestine Jewry. With more than 20,000 British troops at its disposal in Palestine, it has treated with the leaders of the revolt, failed to disarm the Arab gangs, failed to establish a water-tight system of frontier-control...
...late Speaker of the House, produced it in Ohio as early as 1825, and by 1855 had 1,200 acres of vineyards in cultivation near the confluence of the Little Miami and Ohio rivers. His "sparkling Catawba" at $12 a case sold 150,000 bottles a year. This frontier curiosity was wiped out by the Civil War. Great U. S. champagne country now is the Finger Lakes region of New York State...
...will be bringers of peace to Europe. Our mission is to harmonize Germany and France. We are through with following France. I love that country, and it was only an accident that I was born in Belgium for my birthplace is two miles from the French frontier. My parents are French, so is my wife...
...volume of Americana that was less a biography than a biographical essay on the naturalist. One of the two November choices of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Audubon is beautifully illustrated with twelve color plates, presents a romantic portrait of its hero with most emphasis on his picturesque frontier experiences, his difficulties in England and France, little emphasis on his harsh discouragements. Its high point deals with Audubon's awakening ambitions in the South. The dramatic bird life of Louisiana, where adroit and playful mockingbirds chase dogs and torment cats, while sparrows look on in excitement', enchanted...