Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right, so parking in front of Kirkland-Eliot-Winthrop is a fire hazard. Mr. Reynolds has said so. Since such is the state of affairs I want to know why the chain barrier is raised every night in front of Kirkland House. Twice now friends of mine have looked for someone to take the chain down in order that they could return to their own schools . . . but no one seems to have the keys. If cars cannot get out, how could fire engines hope...
...asked permission to join him so that they could bone up away from their own crowded classes. This fall the school permitted its only Negro to attend regular classes, but put a railing around his chair. Last week the trustees bowed to student scoffing at this pretense, ordered the barrier removed...
...area," which could be said of Rockefeller Center any weekday. The Daily News headlined: RUTH'S LAST GATE HIS GREATEST. The News was realistic enough to report that "hardly had the family left the cemetery when the inevitable horde of souvenir hunters broke through a rope barrier and began picking at the remaining mass of floral tributes...
...taking the peso off the peg and establishing a natural barrier to unnecessary imports, Finance Minister Beteta did what some of Mexico's sister republics may have to do. Tighter controls would have invited abuse in a country in which political privilege is hard to control. It would have stimulated the already brisk smuggling trade and set up an even more complex bureaucracy than Mexico already has. And it would have created a black market in peso-dollar trading...
...battle under the worst possible conditions. Germans hated Communism, partly because of long years of anti-Communist indoctrination by the Nazis, but Germans also had a deep-rooted historical fear of Slavs, which was further deepened by the Red Army's excesses in looting and vandalism. This barrier of German sentiment against the Red tide had been one of the rock-bottom facts in the cold war. By last week, the fact was tottering under the astute propaganda of the Russians...