Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frontier was drawn cutting Java...
...second line turned in the best performance of the day, with passing play-setting, and scoring far superior to the first frontier's efforts...
...Many point out that the school is taking the place of the frontier as a means of social mobility in American society," he said. "Once it was, 'Go west young man!' Now a young man looks to education to improve himself. Schools are a national responsibility. I do not see how their function is inconsistent with some centralization...
Cole knew the wilderness well. His father was an Englishman who opened a wallpaper shop in the frontier town of Steubenville, Ohio, in 1820. An itinerant portraitist dropped in one day, kindly taught young Cole how to make paint brushes from pig bristles. Soon the boy was wandering from town to town, painting portraits. He lugged along a saddle he had accepted in payment for one job, but he had no horse. Resting on his saddle, in the forest between settlements, he learned to know landscape, and his landscapes later made a hit. In five years he had a Manhattan...
...been a brilliant, hard-won success, highlighted by a fast three-day invasion of Egypt. Driving down the Egyptian right flank (after a feint at Gaza on the coast), the Israeli forces plunged headlong into Egypt and fought their way to El Arish, over 50 miles behind the frontier...