Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the disastrous flash flood of 1921, had been a subject of controversy ever since. One group of engineers had predicted that it would break under severe pressure, send a wall of water roaring through the city. [Now, as a lake backed up behind the 1 ,900-ft. concrete barrier, an inevitable rumor spread: "The darn is going to break...
That was too much for the crowd at North London's ugly, red brick Harringay Stadium. Someone in the two-shilling enclosure vaulted the barrier onto the track, shouted: "Come on!" Three or four hundred others joined him. The mob started five bonfires of broken hurdles and fencing, dumped the photo-finish camera into one of them, heaved bookies' stools through the windows of the track restaurant...
...which holds that units of matter (e.g., electrons and protons) behave partly like particles, partly like waves, rests on a revolutionary electron experiment performed by Clinton J. Davisson and Lester H. Germer in 1927. Their experiment, done with crystals, was analogous to shooting a beam of electrons at a barrier punctured by two holes very close together...
...foolish to expect a war-ravaged country such as the Philippines to diversify her entire economy in eight years so that other exports might fill the gap caused by a sugar barrier. Traditionally, sugar is to the Filipino standard of living as coffee is to the Brazilians or cotton to Mississippi growers. The comparison is less than fair considering the losses suffered by Luzon industry during the occupation and the unrest that has paralyzed attempts at large-scale industrial recovery. President Roxas will have all he can do to salvage and rebuild the old plants and mills. Conversion from...
Since then, fighting Irishman Nesbitt has proved that Protestant schisms are no insuperable barrier to united Protestant action. He has pushed St. George's original 500 police membership to more than 3,000. Like their Holy Name colleagues, St. George members are required to attend church each Sunday, receive Holy Communion regularly, refrain from swearing and indecent language, be "polite, courteous and gentlemanly" at all times...