Word: frontierisms
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...Chvalkovsky last week became the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister, will handle many cards of a new deal for his country. He at once left for Berlin, where last week the British-French-Czechoslovak-German-Italian commission set up at Munich was drawing the new Czecho-slovak-German frontier while German troops continued to enter and occupy the zones allotted them and Adolf Hitler darted in & out of his new Sudetenland, alternating Sudeten celebrations in his honor with business in Germany. A fine, heavy bouquet of thorny flowers hurled at the Führer by an "admirer" scratched his face...
Many educators believe the frontier was the best teacher U. S. youth has ever had. Its lessons: democracy, self-reliance. Since 1925 stocky, Kansas-born Dr. Lloyd Burgess Sharp, executive director of LIFE Camps, has staged a revival of the frontier for city boys and girls. To the three LIFE Camps* (maintained for underprivileged children by contributions from TIME Inc. and readers of its publications), he takes some 250 youngsters each year for a month's free vacation. In groups of six or seven, each group accompanied by two counselors, the children put up tents in the woods, cook...
With the possibility of the New England Intercollegiate soccer championship in the offing, a strong Harvard varsity soccer team will clash with Amherst this afternoon at Lord Jeffery's frontier settlement...
BUDAPEST--Hungary tonight ordered the mobilization of five military classes, bringing about 300,000 reservists under arms, as heavy fighting and bloodshed spread across the Czechoslovak frontier in areas which Hungary demands. The mobilization order was issued after the government was said to have informed Europe's big powers of possible "extreme measures" to bring the Czechs to terms...
...German troops, ordered to swing across the frontier at three different points between Helfenberg and Finsterau at 2 p. m. precisely, had set their legs in motion on German soil at 1:58 p. m. by the wrist watch of their commander, Colonel General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb. They entered first that part of the Bohemian Forest in which Schiller laid his play The Robbers. Since in these rustic parts there were no accommodations deemed suitable for high officers, these, on the first night, left their German troops sleeping in tents or peasant huts, themselves returned to sleep in hotels...