Word: barriere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirited Irish girl from the far side of the tracks in Philadelphia. Madly in love with a Quaker aristocrat, Kitty finds that they can be happy anywhere except in the City of Brotherly Love--but the ties of birth and position hold her husband home and create a barrier between them. So Kitty goes out on her own, has a divorce and a baby, meets young doctor James Craig who offers her marriage and security. Then Wynn Stratford VI, remarried but disillusioned, asks her to come back to him. Her heart says "yes" but her head says...
...From Herbert Agar on alphabetically down the list, they have proclaimed-with Harvard's most distinguished son-that the Fight for Freedom "must and will" be fought simultaneously on two fronts: abroad against soul-cramping fascism, at home against poverty and reaction. This war, they urge, is not a barrier against social progress, but a path to it. Paraphrasing Herbert Croly, they hail the Promise of American Strife...
...case flickered feebly until mid-1934, when Appalachian began actual construction of its unlicensed dam. In August 1939 a 1,140-foot barrier of grey-white concrete stretched across the New, with nine big spillways near the middle. Thirtieth largest hydroelectric plant in the U. S., Claytor Dam backed up 206,000 acres of water into a lake reaching 21 miles upriver...
...Thailand were to be attacked soon by Japan, it would probably be from the north and west, via French Indo-China.Thailand's northwestern frontier with Indo-China follows a fairly good military barrier, the Mekong River-except for a stretch of about 270 miles, where Indo-China has title to a narrow strip of territory south and east of the river. The area once belonged to Thailand. About the time Japan moved into Indo-China, Thailand decided to demand this strip of land, to close the gap in the barrier. Because she went to work on Indo-China...
...coastal plain, which the Italians call the Marmarica. Some 30 miles inland from Buqbuq an escarpment juts suddenly above the desert, 300-600 feet high. This escarpment runs diagonally towards the coast and meets it at Salum, hard by the Libyan border. Were it a man-made barrier like China's Great Wall, the escarpment could be no more effective as a wall against land warfare. At Salum just two precipitous gullies run from the plain to the top of the plateau and Libya. Into those bottlenecks the British chased the remainder of what British communiques calmly called...