Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...active concert halls in the world, it is always an annoyance and often an impossibility for her students to make the effort necessary to reach them. Only two or three times a year, to hear a particularly well known artist, does the reasonably enthusiastic music lover gain the lower frontier of Huntington avenue. Such infrequent exposure to one of the noblest, of the fine arts is not enough to make any appreciable difference in one's knowledge. But at last the mountain, or at any rate a very satisfactory foothill, has come to Mohammed, and henceforth only actual indifference...
...eight hundred million francs ($265,000,000) during 1929. They thought that at least one of the billions ought to be spent on measures of social relief. Particularly did they object to an allotment of 150,000,000 francs ($5,850,000) for the construction of fortifications along the frontier of disarmed Germany...
...born in England in 1884, joined the colors as drummer boy at the age of 14, served 21 years in the British and Australian armies. His campaigning carried him to the Occupation of Crete, 1898; the South African War, 1900-02; the Tibet Expedition, 1904-05; the North West Frontier Expedition, 1908-12; Australia; Egypt; Gallipoli; France...
Arrived at one of the three points of entry (Leningrad, Odessa, Soviet-Finnish frontier at Beloostrov), each of the 700 must open suitcases and trunks, satisfy customs inspectors they contain not more than...
...obscure, it had its elements of daring, for the Foreign Minister might have been referring to his Queen, his Country or both, or neither. On the whole, Jonkheer Beelaerts appeared content with his pleasantry, for he plunged at once into crisp, forthright comment: "True, gentlemen, we are adjusting a frontier dispute with our good Belgian friends. ... If I may say so without offense, it is the product of the War mentality. Belgium is claiming the two provinces lying south of the Scheldt river on the ground, that it would give them the control of the Scheldt and free the port...