Word: frontierisms
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...Hull, '83, for several years captain of the Yale foot-ball team and crew, has just been elected Mayor of Mandau, Dakota, the roughest frontier town in the Territory...
...university has just suspended most of the lectures temporarily, in order to allow the Phalanx to get its share of active service. The Government supplies arms and drill officers; and, according to the latest news, is having some difficulty in keeping the "boys" from marching off to the frontier. Many of the instructors belong to the Phalanx and are as enthusiastic about it as the students themselves...
...Clark graduated at this school in 1832, and in the next year went to Kentucky, more than a week's journey from Boston. In this almost frontier state he spent seven years, very profitably, he said, since they taught him humanity...
...panic prevails on the Berlin bourse, growing out of articles recently published in the German newspapers concerning the echeloning of the Russian army on the German frontier...
...German government is concentrating troops along the French frontier as a defensive measure...