Word: frontierisms
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...Mongolia and cut off China from Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia whence supplies are streaming to aid Nanking. No correspondent was reported within hundreds of miles of this most vital offensive, watched with cat-like concern by Tokyo, but the Japanese claimed they had broken through Chinese defenses on the frontier of Suiyuan, seized strategic rail junctions...
...days after that Adolf Hitler staged his Nazi "Blood Purge" in which many Germans were killed. Twenty-five days later Nazi agents in Vienna assassinated Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and II Duce, believing Der Führer was about to seize Austria, mobilized the Italian Army on the Austrian frontier, rang up Adolf Hitler by long distance phone and warned him in German: "Hands off Austria...
Performing in the title role of MGM's Badman of Brimstone, Cinemactor Wallace Beery dashed into a frontier set. brandishing a six gun in either hand, tripped, fired a blank cartridge into his thigh...
Granted. To Authoress Margaret Mitchell Marsh; a temporary injunction restraining Showman Billy Rose from participating in the profits of his Casa Mañana Review at the Fort Worth Frontier Centennial, in which he used the name of her novel Gone With The Wind as the name of one of his sketches; in Fort Worth. The injunction does not prevent continuance either of the review or of the sketch...
...second basic purpose was to establish UNIVERSITY PROFESSORSHIPS, to reinforce teaching and research by affording broader opportunities to teachers and scholars of unusual scope and ability who are working on the frontier of knowledge. These are the so-called "roving professorships," without Departmental connection...