Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Anderson (New York Evening Post) : "Except for the slight but insuperable barrier of authorship I would have thought that Mr. Bromfield hadn't read The Green Bay Tree...
...University faced its most arduous task; acclimatization of an unfamiliar public to a strange order of things. It is fair to say that this initial opposition has been successfully broached and now the word tutorial is significant of a cooperative and not a one-side effort. The second barrier is that stressed by Mr. Aiken--the unification of the results of the tutorial system. As matters stand now the tutorial assistance offered students meets with no adequate appreciation until the Senior year, when it is brought to bear on the incipient graduate with such force that he cannot help...
...walk toward it and bump his shins. Mr. Bradley ordered his whole stable tested. Dr. Emons made glasses for four of them. They race truer. Previously near the rail or in a bunch of horses they climbed*; they performed inconsistently and ran good races only when breaking from the barrier far outside. Now they can see where they are going. They run fast in bunches. Racemen at Saratoga are converted. They see it all now, like the horses...
Fifty golden guineas ($255) and an added purse of $15,000 were "to be run for," in the language of Victoria, Regina, et Imperatrix. As the barrier was sprung, 16 "platers" got away in an absolutely clean break after only four minutes at the post. . . . The field strung out. . . . Then, on the home stretch, two almost equally favored horses, Troutlet and Mr. Gaiety, had it nose to nose. Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada and Governor-General Willingdon both clapped glasses to their eyes, bent forward, tense, tried to see which horse crossed the winning mark first. Then...
Northern Chinese Army, broke through the barrier in search of loot. Two British armored cars sped to the attack, three Britishers were wounded in the exchange. In another part of the International .Settlement, two British Punjabi soldiers were killed, ten wounded, in a short clash. In Moscow as news came that Shanghai, "stronghold of imperialism" had fallen, thousands of jubilant workers tramped the streets waving red flags and singing the "Internationale...