Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suffers the hard loneliness of being just beyond the pale of all for which he yearns. Unexpectedly, he discovers in Sondra Finchley, beautiful heiress, a sweetheart who will fulfill his dearest, vainest dreams. But in the poor factory girl, Roberta Alden, he has already set up a barrier to marriage with Sondra-the result of a lonely, passionate, summer romance. Too sensitive to break with Roberta, top weak to give up Sondra, he is driven in desperation to focus upon a murderous thought. From the actual deed itself, he recoils. But he has proceeded so far in his feverish plans...
...return of Holleran and Fusonie to the forward barrier gives the fast Green backs an effective frontier. McPhail has been the most consistent Dartmouth back this season: Lane, who starred last year, has not got going...
...Herbert Rubin, 200 pounds of veteran experience, he will put a premium on ground in the center of the Green barrier...
...only serious accident of the tour occurred on the Storm King Highway near West Point, New York. I was driving 'Jezebel', the supply truck, down a very steep hill. With me were J. L. Shute and Edgar Barrier, a Columbia graduate. The roadway was wet and I applied all the brakes we had to slow us up a bit. Naturally, 'Jezebel's' brakes burned out and we dashed down at terrific speed. At the bottom, we hit another car, demolishing it, and then flattened five concrete posts before, turning over in a ditch. Shute and I went out through...
Nowithstanding the injury, Barrier played his part successfully at the evening's performance in Woodstock, New York, without anyone suspecting that his arm was in splints...