Word: hinterlander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should last them for some time. All the accumulated talent of Harvard and much of the purest cream of the professional stage, under the leadership of a recent graduate of Yale, will carry the gospel of the theatre from under the shadow of the Sacred Codfish to the barren hinterland of Maine and New Hampshire...
...Church, and under certain conditions, the Church, by the power of the Holy Ghost, is the voice of God upon earth, possessing the keys of Heaven. The Bishop repudiates the charge that he "reasons in chains." He has gone, says he, boldly, with a free mind, into the hinterland of historical fact. He has set out, adventurously, on a voyage of intellectual discovery, ready to acknowledge whatever conclusions his reason may bring him to. Without disparaging the Bishop's sincerity, it must, however, be said, that in all the labyrinth of his argument he seems to be clutching fast...
There is no reason why the college graduate who visits this "hinterland" should do so with the resignation of a martyr. He is not taking a step from which there can be no withdrawal. For he, like the young lawyer or traveling salesman, need not continue with his work if he finds it not to his liking. And if he does decide that the teaching of Syrians or of the "heathen Chinee" is as the reading of books--nothing but "a weariness of the flesh", he can return home with at least one interesting experience behind him--more than...
...fleets are beginning to be a regular feature of those harbors in the United States which have a dense enough hinterland to make bootlegging and liquor running highly lucrative. Scranton, Philadelphia, and Trenton are supplied by the fleet which lies off Highland, New Jersey. New York is fed from the sea by a fleet anchored off Sandy Hook and in the neighboring waters. San Francisco gets its Mexican, Canadian, and Japanese liquors from the armada plying outside the Golden Gate. Boston and the lesser New England ports are infested with smugglers from the Bahamas and the West Indies...