Word: frontierisms
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...opening stages the Japanese-Russian quarrel was based on flatly contradictory statements by Tokyo and Moscow about something alleged to have occurred on the murky Amur River, which for much of its length forms the frontier between Soviet Siberia and Japan's puppet empire of Manchukuo (see map). Ambassador Shigemitsu was instructed to say that Japanese and Manchukuoan soldiers, while peacefully swimming in the Amur, had been fired upon by a Soviet gunboat, soon sunk by the avenging fire of their shore batteries. To this Commissar Litvinoff replied that a Japanese-Manchukuoan gunboat had opened fire on a Soviet...
...Point, at the southern end of Lake Champlain. There he enlisted in Rogers' famed Rangers, just in time to join the heroic two months' march on and retreat from St. Francis, Canadian Indian village that had been the hornet-nest base for many a raid against the frontier settlements of New England...
...Rose carted his musical circus Jumbo down to Fort Worth and set up four or five other super-spectacles, including Sally Rand and her fans. So well satisfied were the city fathers of Fort Worth that they signed up Doctor Rose on the same terms for a second Frontier festival, which opens late this month. Lately Mr. Rose has been shuttling between Texas and Lake Erie, because this year he is playing doctor to another exposition-Cleveland...
...this situation colonial officers on the spot gave heartiest thanks for Spain's General Franco. Tempting offers of full canteens and salaries to fight for Fascist Spain have won hundreds of hungry tribesmen over the frontier, and French frontier officials have almost broken their necks turning their heads the other...
...years, the best of man's best friends have been the dogs of St. Bernard, traditionally trained by the monks of that hospice to succor and save benighted travelers in the 8,111-ft. pass under Mt. Blanc's cold shoulder near the Franco-Swiss frontier. Weighing up to 200 Ib. in maturity, the St. Bernard dogs are noted for great strength, docility, intelligence, and an expression of almost idiotic benignity. From puppyhood, the dogs are taught to drag unconscious travelers as far as they can, then run & fetch the monks from the hospice. In times past...