Word: frontierisms
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Alfred Emanuel Smith, most famed Democratic liberal until the New Deal shoved back the liberal frontier and moved out on the Santa Fe trail of experiment...
...other. It might or might not have been signed by Paul Joseph Goebbels, but it did ask Mrs. Lewis to leave Germany within 24 hours. If she desired, she might have an additional 24 hours leeway. At the end of that time she would be escorted to the frontier by the police...
Across 1,000 miles of Asia's bandit-infested "Wild East" stretches the Chinese Eastern Railway, spanning Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo from frontier to frontier and serving as a short-cut for the Trans-Siberian Line between Moscow and Vladivostok. Japan has had a wolfish eye on C. E. R. ever since it was built by Imperial Russia, which retained a half interest in the road. This half interest Soviet Ambassador Yurenev offered last year to sell for 250,000,000 gold rubles (then $168,000,000). Japan insisted that the nominal buyer must be Manchukuo...
Along the Dutch-Belgian frontier the Germans had stretched an electrified barricade patrolled by sentries. Captain Landau in Holland had to work through that deadly fence to rebuild on the other side a British secret service almost from the ground...
...were three principal ways of getting messages over the Dutch border: 1) On dark nights "passeurs" would go through the wire wearing rubber gloves and rubber socks, dodging the sentries. 2 ) Bargemen from Rotterdam to Antwerp would find means of concealing dispatches. 3) Belgian peasants whose farms touched the frontier were sometimes induced to pick up and transmit papers secretly tossed over the wire at night...