Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right of any religious group to duplicate playground, cultural or after-hours activities offered by the community, and then to demand state financial support of the same type granted the public efforts. If New Jersey taxpayers must finance the transportation of students to parochial schools, what is the logical barrier between this type of subsidy and subsidy of education itself? For if the bus-ride to private school is a public service, it must follow logically that the education offered by that private school is just as much a public concern. And here you run into the gravest type...
Once over the transportation barrier, tourists would run into other troubles. They could not go to Russia, Rumania, Bulgaria or Hungary. Elsewhere in Europe, food and hotel rooms were none too plentiful, many a currency was so unstable as to make the value of U.S. dollars unpredictable. Best travel bets: the British Isles, Switzerland, Scandinavia, France, the Low Countries...
This amendment cannot be intelligently supported by those who profess belief in the political good sense of the majority in times of decision. Those who do not share this faith in the people and majority rule are less than sincere in advocating this barrier to the free choice of candidates on the flimsy grounds of a tradition--indeed, a tradition repudiated twice in four years by the voters of the country...
Between Protestantism and the other great religions the barrier to theological unity is even less surmountable. An agnostic would say that, just as there are different sizes in clothing, it seems necessary to have many different theological in order to approximate the various specifications of different human souls. From the point of view of a church goer of more rigid beliefs the divergency is accounted for by the fact that God has divided humanity into saints and sinners...
...Billingsgate fish-market porters use oaths at all, they use far richer ones than "damn." And I did not, in fact, write "damn" but "dam," thus indicating that I accepted a possibly outmoded (1877) but attractive derivation of the phrase "a tinker's dam"-dam being any barrier, and, in particular, the wall of worthless dough "raised around a place which a plumber desires to flood with a coat of solder" (see Oxford Dictionary...