Word: frontierisms
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...desire to render homage to Mr. MacDonald for his loyalty as well as to Signor Mussolini. . . . I promise that the Chamber will not separate without a full debate on foreign policy. . . . France fears no menace on any frontier...
...which simply gave public recognition to the fact that men travel nowadays on railroads. Thousands of Americans go to Europe now where one went in Washington's day, but when Americans legislate on international relations they still believe that Washington's said the last word on that subject. The frontier disappeared some time before the nineties of the last century, but our legislators have not discovered that fact, and the law still assumes that a man employed by the United States steel Corporation is a free agent and must be protected in his constitutional right to make his own bargain...
...contrary, famed "Little Dollfuss" (4 ft. 11 in.), whose friends compare him to "Little Corporal" Napoleon, was very much Chancellor of Austria last week, and doing his best to cure the Hitlerite sniffles before they should become political pneumonia. Rumors reached Vienna that some of the frontier posts dividing Austria and Germany had been pulled up in the night. Anything might happen. The fact that Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany is by birth an Austrian increased the danger that Austrian Nazis might be able to seize the Government, helped (according to further rumors) by 60,000 German Nazis supposed...
Meanwhile another draft on "Little Dollfuss' " stiff neck was the rumor sweeping through Austria, that the 2O-year-old Archduke Otto von Habsburg, pretender to the throne, was either in the country or on the Swiss frontier, waiting for a call. Three newspapers were promptly suppressed for hinting at the story in print...
...professor learns his name and deigns to chat with him in the hall after a lecture. And since these men are, almost without exception, known and respected in the chemical world, the young man has the opportunity of hearing of and seeing the latest researches into the chemical frontier. As I've said, books grew scarce. It is impossible for books to keep up with the newly developing theories. The student must go to the journals and the original papers of the workers. Even his laboratory work changes in character. He has learned by this time the fundamental procedures...