Word: barriere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Loew's State--"The Barrier," with Lionel Barrymore...
Loew's State--"The Barrier", with Lionel Barrymore...
...meet a rare type of boon, that which unravels a particularly annoying knot without snarling the string at the other end. For years the Cottage Farm Bridge and the railroad bridge beside it have been a thorn in the flesh of rowers on the Charles. They form a barrier to be passed only with great caution. Now, by a bill pending in the legislature, each of the bridges is expected to give way to a new structure with six fifty-foot spans, and thus to clear the river for rowing from Anderson Bridge to the Basin...
...faculty ruling, in effect, sets up an elastic barrier between Pass and Honor students which adapts itself to the basic structure of the lecture system. For the necessary restrictions which hedge about the privilege make the transition back to course requirements easy for the student who does not profit by extended tutorial work. On complaint of his tutor, a delinquent candidate may have to resume the full schedule of four courses at either mid-year or final examination periods...
...eagerly awaited his words, the words of George Eastman, camera man and music lover, who had contributed over 15 millions to their alma mater yet had steadfastly refused to address a Tech audience since they first began asking him in 1916. At that, his words came from behind the barrier that space and wavelengths afford retiring natures. But to the farflung "phantom" diners they were real words...