Word: barriere
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...coincidence, there is now a small but growing trend to drop grades-in both senses. One out of four large-sized school-districts combines first, second and third grades into a single primary unit. Children learn at their own fast or slow pace without competing to hurdle the artificial barrier of promotion, and the only mark they get is the deliberately vague judgment of "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory...
...financial and spiritual partnership with a downtown Chicago parish revived by Don Benedict's Missionary Society. Members of the congregation also welcome underprivileged children from Inner City churches into their homes for summer vacations, are working in the community to pass open-occupancy covenants. "We broke the barrier of involvement on race," says the Rev. Hugh Saussy of Holy Innocents' Episcopal Church near Atlanta...
Adams refrained from closer contact: "The pervasive odor of cocoanut oil has proved an impassable barrier...
...column is concocted of bile and bilge. There is no barrier of good taste that he won't breach daily...
...clambered unsteadily from the cockpit. "Whew!" he said. "This is an animal, not a car." On his second run through the measured mile, dockers caught Arfons at 559.179 m.p.h.-for an incredible average of 536.7 m.p.h. Now he began talking about doing 600 m.p.h., or even cracking the sound barrier-about 720 m.p.h. at Bonneville. Nobody knows what will happen if a car ever does go faster than sound, but Arfons is game...