Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...receive A. M.'s at commencement, compare with the 156 who attained the distinction a year ago. These figures cannot be taken as final, however, for a considerable number v. aspire to the degrees fail to attain them due to the final examination barrier...
Here, defended from the march of progress by the sturdy barrier of Judge, Junior, the good old customs will go on. What does it matter if the authors are strayed revellers, what if the number is diminishing of those who still care enough to illuminate their college, their class and their own family name with the last glints of a faded splendor...
...which the arrival of tourists along the frequently snow-bound Sierra highway may be facilitated. They approached a solution of their difficulties when someone suggested that the snowy road be underlaid with pipes and that the pipes then, be filled with steam, thus warming the road and melting the barrier upon its surface. Sixteen miles of the cold-beleaguered turnpike could be so coddled; boilers at four mile intervals would keep the water warm, wood from the near forests would warm the boilers. Two men could attend to feeding the fires. Prompted by this ingenious and civilized enticement to their...
...advantages of a college without its exclusiveness and by avoiding through its wider range the provincialism of the high schools, such an idea offered the solution and was destined to develop into the present array of schools and colleges in which caste lines have ceased to be a barrier...
Forty-two horses came out of the paddock gate and moved up the midway to the barrier. Some walked quietly and lightly, with the jockeys sitting up high to save their backs even in this short walk; others skittered sideways, excited by the sight of other horses, by the crowd (250,000) that showed like a dark ocean along the fences, washing up into a wave in the grandstand. It had been raining in the morning, but the rain had stopped; the sky was full of shifting clouds through which the sunlight shone in patches. Three times the horses, picked...