Word: frontierisms
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...Last week, in the 22nd annual James Gordon Bennett balloon race at Warsaw, Polish flyers took not only the first two places, but the third as well. Winning balloon drifted 830 mi. to Ryazan, U. S. S. R. Chief excitement of the race was furnished by over-zealous Soviet frontier guards who fired at several of the balloons, hit none...
...good line; Holy Cross, which wiped out little St. Joseph's 51-0, has a row of 210 pound giants that stopped the Hawks' running attack and wrecked all attempts at passes; Brown, too has a heavy line that were down an unusually good. B. U. eleven; Army's frontier is at sector this year. Captain Gundlach is the only member of long experience, though Fran Schumann saw some action in 1933 and would have been in a good deal more if he hadn't been put on the injured list early in the season. Apparently Casey figures that Schu...
...said tartly that the civil disobedience campaign should be resumed "in my lifetime only under my direction." Since April the little man has been stoned and bombed. And last week he announced that he will soon visit the Afghan border to support his Afghan disciple, Abdul Gaffur Khan ("The Frontier Gandhi"), and "gauge the strength of the spirit of non-violence among the tribes...
...convinced Leader of the British Conservative (majority) Party Stanley Baldwin that the Nazi Reich is a real menace to the peace of Europe. It was after M. Barthou's visit that M. Baldwin startled the world by declaring for His Majesty's Government that the British frontier is now on the Rhine...
Across the frontier, seats on the Toronto Stock Exchange are now worth $60,000 and hard to get at that. Only three U. S. firms have seats. Only one U. S. corporation-American Cyanamid-has applied for Toronto listing since the Stock Exchange Bill was enacted. But Toronto has been reveling in an unprecedented boom in gold shares, and what the 113 members of the Toronto Board devoutly hope is that more & more U. S. money will be sluiced into Canadian mining stocks. In the ale houses off King Street it is freely predicted that Toronto seats will be worth...