Word: barriere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come from the brush of an artist. If, as many say, they are the artistic symptoms of a deranged mind, it can be said with equal conviction that in many cases his deranged mind has succeeded in breaking through certain superimposed limits of expression and has gone beyond the barrier of empirical observation in a surprisingly unaffected and natural way. His mind was no hodge-podge while he was actually painting; on the contrary, his work reflects a certain kind of clear-sighted vision, a kind of vision or insight which was neither distorted nor crazy. He merely perceived...
...only major barrier in the way of these proposals is that the necessary grant for erecting the building has not yet been received...
Extended troop movements at the Swiss and Luxembourg extremities of the front were observed by the Allies, despite a "flying Westwall"- a stronger than usual barrier of fighter planes kept up continuously by the Germans to prevent observation behind their lines. Simultaneously the German Air Force intensified reconnaissance flights over northern France-always approaching and retiring, it was noticed, by way of Belgium...
...steel bars, to block a vessel's passage; 2) of chains and dangling wires, to foul submarine propellers; 3) mine nets in which a submarine, struggling to unmesh itself, makes its presence known ashore, where buttons are pushed to explode charges at the proper place along the barrier. Submarines encountering net types 1 and 2 are dispatched by depth charges from patrol ships or airplanes...
...Miami, continues with a 46-day meeting at swank Hialeah Park, six miles northwest of Miami, winds up with a 33-day return engagement at Tropical. Last week 10,000 Miami visitors flocked to Tropical Park to see the 1940 U. S. horse-racing season break from the barrier. Meanwhile U. S. railbirds from coast to coast pored over the 1939 betting results, posted by United Press...