Word: frontierisms
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Among contemporary historical authors, Professor Turner held a prominent position. In the "American Nation" series, edited by A. B. Hart '80, Eaton professor of the Science of Government, emeritus, he contributed a volume entitled "The Rise of the New West" and in 1920 his "Frontier in American History" was published. He also edited "The Correspondence of French Ministers and Agents in the United States, 1791-1797", as well as various collections of American documents...
...next nine months alone the new Ministry of Defense will spend $600,000,000, according to budget estimates published last week. Secret, France's defense program is nevertheless known to consist of a series of fortresses, largely subterranean, strung like pearls along almost her entire land frontier from the English Channel to the Mediterranean. Subways connect large key forts with smaller posts so that men and munitions may be rushed from fort to fort beneath the poppies of a smiling countryside...
...youngest son did even more. Last week Devi Das Gandhi, 20, was to have married the 19-year-old daughter of his father's good friend C. R. Rajagopalachari. A war rant was out for the arrest of Devi Das. If he tried to go to the northwestern frontier, where trouble was brewing, he knew he would surely be captured. Be tween love and duty Devi Das did not long waver. He went to the railroad station in New Delhi where a squad of police men pounced upon him, clapped him into jail. Said he: "While I am deeply...
...judicial meaning of the word but also such military actions as intervention, blockade, military occupation of foreign territory, etc". Yet in the very next year, the U.S.S.R. denied that its actions in Manchuria, which included armed invasion of Chinese territory, bombardment by land and air of Chinese frontier towns, and the defeat of the local Chinese troops, constituted an infringement of the Pact of Paris. No other Power supported the United States in invoking the Pact and the Soviet eventually succeeded in forcing the Chinese to enter into direct negotiations, precisely as Japan is attempting to do at present...
...Excellency feels bound to emphasize that he will not be prepared to discuss with you the measures which the Government of India, with the full approval of His Majesty's Government, have found it necessary to adopt in Bengal, the United Provinces and the North-west Frontier Province...