Word: frontierisms
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...diplomats could agree last week were: 1) although Moscow claimed the hill under a Russo-Chinese treaty of 1886, for many years it had been completely vacant; 2) Koreans and Manchukuoans had from time to time gone to it on festival pilgrimages unhindered by Red Army frontier guards; 3) Changkufeng first emerged from obscurity when a Soviet force occupied it on July 11; 4) Japanese forces drove the Russians from the hill on July 31. Not mentioned, of course, was the fact that Changkufeng, once firmly held and fortified by either Russia or Japan, would be an important strategic position...
...French Army usually holds its principal annual war games along the German frontier, but last week, while Adolf Hitler was getting ready to play with 1,000,000 men, the French played their own little game with 20,000 men in the Alps. The problem, set by General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, who not only attended the maneuvers but handshook every man in two regiments: "The capture of a mountain pass and the exploitation of its capture by a movement into the dominated valley...
...erecting cement pillboxes every 150 yards along the Fatherland's new "Siegfried Line" (which faces part of the French "Maginot Line") rose last week to 300,000. Road contractors in southern Germany were also busy on rush orders to improve the surfacing of roads leading to the Czechoslovak frontier "to withstand more heavy traffic...
Education has never had an authoritative dictionary of its technical terms. Any three educators would haggle themselves silly trying to find a common 15-word definition for frontier thinkers, organismic psychology, transfer of training. Last week, at last, Phi Delta Kappa, 29-year-old professional fraternity of education, announced that it would compile from the best written sources and from the knowledge of its 23,000 members a Dictionary of Education. ΦΔΚ hopes to complete its work in about four years...
Unfortunately, Cinemactor Scott's long upper lip and narrow eyes tend to give him the look of an uncouth frontier bumpkin...