Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interest in this apparatus was aroused by cryptic articles appearing in several newspapers, which declared that Marconi and his 'micro-wave' machine will soon be on the African frontier, ready to frustrate dusky aviators as soon as they dare leave the ground, and force their bare feet back to mother earth...
...cast and the west. Yet this is what must be done if Harvard is to beat provincialism. Mr. Conant has a hard task ahead of him, made even more difficult by the necessity of maintaining academic standards at the present level. But he must continue to develop the frontier and push it forward if Harvard is to be a national university...
From Assab on the Red Sea, a second army bore straight in, parallel to the French Somaliland frontier, in an effort to cut Ethiopia's only railroad at Dire Dawa (see map, p. 18). Fighting as hard, suffering as much as the publicized troops to the north, they had captured the mountain of Mussa Ali last week and were slowly driving through desert country toward the railroad. Well aware was the Conquering Lion of Judah of the importance of this force. At Jigjiga, 65 miles from Dire Dawa, he had assembled the best equipped, best trained of his fighters...
...Imperial German overseas colonies now held by other Great Powers. If on the other hand, Dictator Mussolini is balked by the League of Nations, the Italian attitude toward France is sure to change from friendship to fury, thereby weakening France which would have to send back to her Italian frontier the troops she withdrew and sent to guard her German frontier after the Laval-Mussolini accord in Rome (TIME, Jan. 14). Simultaneously Italy, which has been the chief bulwark against absorption of Austria by Germany would agree to that Anschluss, and Adolf Hitler might then make his first territorial gain...
With the cards thus stacked in his favor last week, the Realmleader did nothing more provocative than continue to violate Articles 42 & 43 of Part III of the Treaty of Versailles by fortifying the German Rhine frontier with subterranean steel & concrete forts now being installed in the guise of "drainage systems" by German Army engineers and troops in civilian working clothes...