Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Except for France, the European powers are not at all perturbed by the Belgium declaration. London feels that this neutrality policy will enable France to concentrate on the Rhine, while Belgium can henceforth take care of her own frontier alone. For the future peace of Europe this move is a wise one, since European stability can never be achieved when eight or ten countries have "ganged up" upon one or two others in a "collective security" system...
...scene reminiscent of frontier days when pioneers lined up on the edge of the Western lands waiting for the gun to send them on their way to stake claims in the new areas, over 100 students jammed the basement corridors of Fogg Art Museum yesterday afternoon. After the doors of the room were opened, the mob rushed in and in less than 10 minutes had wolfed up the entire collection...
TIME has been read in strange places under strange conditions but never until this month by a radio reporter waiting on a battlefield to broadcast carnage. Good fortune led me to pocket my unread copy of TIME as I started for the French frontier farm from which I had planned to describe the battle of Irun to Columbia's listeners -with sound effects by the combatants. The effects began soon after my microphone was installed between a haystack and a cornfield and with them came incessant shot & shell. The rapidly shifting fighting front had placed my haystack in direct...
...American inventiveness, coupled with the strange and rich conditions which faced pioneers on the frontier," explains Lexicographer Craigie, accounts for the U. S. habit of twisting familiar English words into new meanings. Inventive John Adams first used appreciation to mean an increase in value. Inventive George Washington introduced administration in its U. S. political sense in his 1796 Farewell Address, first used average as a verb, first used the term back country. Since then back has been firmly imbedded as an adjective in such U. S. phrases as back taxes, back pay, back number, back talk, backhouse. Likewise inventive...
Untrained, the Government militia made such a mess of trying to use their artillery that finally a sympathetic French reserve officer undertook to direct their fire. The French Ambassador, bold Jean Herbette, meanwhile undertook to take out of Spain a mysterious individual whom the Red guards at the Spanish frontier viewed with so much suspicion that they threatened to open fire. Cried M. Herbette from his Ambassadorial car flying the Tricolor, ''Fire if you dare, Messieurs-upon the French Ambassador!" As the Reds hesitated he dashed to safety in France...