Word: frontierisms
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...Common Frontier...
...exists, disposed to think lightly of the risks and inconveniences which attend improvements, and disposed to give every change credit for being an improvement. In the sentiments of both classes there is something to approve. But of both the best specimens will be found not far from the common frontier. The extreme section of one class consists of bigoted dotards: the extreme section of the other consists of shallow and reckless empirics...
...Michigan, with 100,000, preparations went on for celebration of Finnish Independence Day this week, and Finns were taking up "raianturva kerays" for Finnish aid. Raianturva kerays means frontier defense canvas, began when Finnish workmen voluntarily gave up vacations to work on forts on the Russian frontier...
...Magyar tongue is Finnish. Mainly for this reason, sentimental Hungarians consider the Finns "our northern cousins." Last week Hungarians were dismayed to hear of the Soviet invasion of Finland. At the same time fear of the Russians came nearer home with disturbing occurrences on their own Russian (recently Polish) frontier. Red Army soldiers, it was reported, fired on Hungarian sentries. More important, Hungarian military authorities seized large batches of Communist propaganda pamphlets shipped into eastern Carpatho-Ukraine, the mountainous district which Hungary grabbed from dying Czecho-Slovakia last March and which the Nazis once thought of using for a jump...
...hours before the statement was issued it was announced that Russia has created a special military district along the frontier with Rumania