Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Oklahomans. On April 22, 1889, a gunshot at noon opened the State's choice Indian Territory land to 20,000 settlers lined along the border. Racing frontiersmen found many of the best spots already occupied by border-jumpers who had got there "sooner." * In 1913, Carlton Chilton, then 17, grabbed $2,000 from a bank counter on the spur of the moment, while a clerk was out to lunch...
Instead, Carol and Mihai showed up near Vrsac, a Yugoslav town close to the Rumanian border, which is noted for its good wines and hunting. There, they were met by the polished, cultured, Oxford-educated, pro-Ally Prince Paul, Senior Regent of Yugoslavia, and the Yugoslav Premier, Dragisha Cvetkovitch. Of all Rumania's Balkan neighbors, Yugoslavia is its only real friend (Rumania annexed territory from the others after World War I). Rumania and Yugoslavia, once members of the French-inspired Little Entente, are now members of the Balkan Entente, which is scheduled to meet at Belgrade next month. Dictator...
...Herr Hitler made the ironic announcement that the northern end of Sylt, a 23-mile sandspit off the Danish-German border, was closed to visitors because it was now a, "bird sanctuary." Every one knew that Sylt's birds were mechanical fowl, their eggs bombs, their nests at List and Westerland protected by coast artillery. One night last week Danes witnessed the bombing of a row of flares set in Rantum Bay to guide Nazi raiders home, another night saw a bomb hit the Hindenburg Dam, a causeway over tidal flats connecting Sylt with the mainland. Danish observers...
...November evening two British agents were jerked to Germany by the Gestapo, which caught them just inside the Dutch border. They were Captain Richard Henry Stevens, chief of the British passport office at The Hague and alleged head of the British Intelligence Service on the Continent, and Sigismund Payne Best, socially prominent Hague representative of various foreign firms. Nazi sources let it be understood that these two gentlemen were suspected of interest if not complicity in the Munich Bürgerbräu Keller attempt on Adolf Hitler; that, held in Berlin, Captain Stevens was "confessing" volubly to sabotage activities...
...Bonnie, Oh!") that her record was soon jerking juke-box nickels faster than the fading Beer Barrel Polka (TIME, Sept. 11). Last week, with 350,000 sheet-music copies and some 350,000 records sold to date, the revived Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! was nudging South of the Border for first place on the best-seller list. Meanwhile Band Leader Tucker and Bonnie moved into big time on the Lucky Strike Your Hit Parade, and Tunesmith Olman was taking in more royalties than Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! had earned in its first incarnation...