Word: frontierisms
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...they are by now so thoroughly disgusted with the immediate effects of prohibition, and so willing to eschew the saloon if a satisfactory alternative presents itself, that the framing of wise liquor legislation is a matter or profound social importance. That legislation must set at the beginning a far frontier of government control upon which no one will dare to encroach; specifically, it should prohibit the sale of liquor of any kind outside of federal dispensaries and restaurants. In the beginning, those restaurants may seem to be little more than dining saloons, and there will probably be drunkenness and some...
...subordinate drinking to eating, and would make that subordination natural in the public mind. We have tried to reform the public mind by an imposed abstention, and we have seen that the reform must proceed largely from, and must be moulded by, that mind itself. The barbarism of the frontier has left its impress on our drinking habits long enough; now that a class has arisen which is moving away from the frontier in other things, our law must keep pace with it, over anticipating its upward trends, and recognizing the need for social stability which our civilization is surely...
Still riding high, War Minister Sadao Araki last week canceled previously announced plans to reduce the number of Japanese troops in Manchukuo to a "peace time basis." Instead, more troops will be sent, the excuse being that Soviet Russia continues to maintain the large forces she established behind her frontier when Japan occupied Manchukuo and seized most of the half-Soviet-owned Chinese Eastern Railway which serves the northern part of Manchukuo...
...optimistic statistician at $660, and other experts who have tried to figure it out say that $1,500 would be more nearly the correct figure." That Broadway, "once a street of comparatively modest tastes, of some show of decorum . . . has degenerated into something resembling the main drag of a frontier town. . . . Broadway has become a basement bargain counter...
Aside from Verdun, Hackenberg and Hochwald, the entire Sarre-Rhine frontier of France is studded every kilometre (nearly five-eighths of a mile) with "pillboxes" and groups of pillboxes, each one a small fort 30 ft. by 36 ft. and rooted 60 ft. deep in earth so that poilus in the lower chamber can rest in comfort. "Comfort," as Marshal Pétain has said, "is of utmost strategic importance. The combative efficiency of the soldier is at least doubled when he can recuperate in comfort." Ergo, nearly every pillbox is equipped with electric lights, electric stove, a well, beds...