Word: frontierisms
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President Conant investigated the frontier condition of American society during the nineteenth century to clarify the concept of human liberty specific to this nation and passed on by tradition. "Those of our frontier were not concerned with the past. They were little bothered by tradition or custom; what stability and order they possessed came from the needs of the present, not from an inherited pattern...
Conant concluded his address with an appeal for a new approximation to the social mobility and devotion to the welfare of the average man characterized by the frontier society...
Weather kept Air Marshal "Ginger" Harris' bombers idling at home most of the week. When the skyways cleared sufficiently, back they went to night-raiding Germany. This time Emden, North Sea port and manufacturing city near the Dutch frontier, got it, two nights in a row, not on the 1,000-plane Cologne-Essen scale, but with "a strong force"-200 to 300 planes. Only seven failed to return...
...Japanese had taken strong offensive steps, great risks, with a threefold purpose of establishing: 1) a defensive outpost;* 2) a base threatening potential supply routes to Russia's eastern frontier; 3) the first step on a stairway'that might lead to large-scale offensive action against the continental...
Newly in charge of the new Gulf sea frontier, faced with the onerous job of squashing Axis subs, is Rear Admiral James Laurence Kauffman, transferred from the Iceland Naval Base. Commandant of the PC training center is Lieut. Commander Eugene F. McDaniel. He preaches each week to recruits to instill them with what he calls "the PC religion." After one such lecture two men, spokesmen for 150 who had been on ships sunk by the Japs, tagged him to his office. They wanted to pledge him 100% cooperation, they said. They were in tears...