Word: barriere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still nobody knows how many of the young fish, the fingerlings, successfully return to the sea through the whirling, bladed turbines, or by Bonneville's ice sluice, spillways and bypasses. (Four hundred and fifty miles upriver from Bonneville, Grand Coulee rises to its 550 feet in a barrier that the salmon cannot pass-so the far reaches of the river beyond Grand Coulee can never be salmon spawning ground again...
...arrested. Nevertheless, only two days behind schedule Shreve steamed out of New Orleans. "The monopoly's helplessness was farcical." In 1819 the Fulton-Livingston company withdrew all claim to a monopoly. "News of this surged up every stream. The Mississippi was free! Henry Shreve had battered the barrier down." In the next two years 60 steamboats were built on the River...
...Chungking's celebration was soon ended. The Japanese Army, stung by its Central China defeat, suddenly uncorked a drive in North China. Crossing the muddy Yellow River, a three-year-old barrier to Japanese advance, it seized the strategic rail center of Chengchow. If the Japanese could consolidate and drive from Chengchow west along the railway toward Sian, their achievement would be greater than the conquest of Changsha...
Every girl is given a supply of a medicinal vegetable and mineral oil, containing an emulsifier and iodine. When spread over vaginal tissues the oil protects her from venereal disease, and if she is already infected it protects her partner. The oil (called Progonasyl) acts as a physical barrier as well as a germ killer, was developed several years ago by a group of scientists at Tulsa, Okla. This is the first mass test of its efficacy...
...training ground, where men and boys hurriedly boned up on grenade-throwing and bayonet-thrusting. On the Neva's right bank, across from the Winter Palace, shipyard and metal workers, some of whom had stormed the Winter Palace in 1917, staged a mock battle. Every street got its barrier. In the factories men worked with guns beside them...