Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staffers traveled faster than sound. The speed dash was done by Bureau Chief Jim Shepley and Pentagon Reporter Clay Blair over Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, each riding in a Lockheed F-94C. At 40,000 ft., the pilots went into a power dive. They broke through the sonic barrier, then pulled out of the dive...
...with Roast Tapir. The first language barrier to be cracked was that of the Cashibo Indians, who live along the Aguaytia River. There the linguists had a lucky start. Near the village of Pucallpa, they found a Cashibo named Gregorio Estrella, who had lived on the coast and learned Spanish. Recalls one of Townsend's team: "Gregorio led us to his tribe. They were so pleased when they found we wanted to live just the way they did that they built a house for us." As a starter, the linguists began asking the names of everyday things: banana, fire...
...Benner, 35, who teaches pistolry to West Pointers, has broken 2,600 more times than he can recall, holds the official U.S. record of 2,644. Ex-Marine Major Harry Reeves, 44, now a pistol professor (as a lieutenant) for Detroit's police department, has cracked the point barrier some 30 times. His most amazing performance: a brilliant (but unofficial) U.S. record of 2,649 points...
...Language Barrier. Dean Scott, 43, developed his work-study plan as a result of his own experience as pastor in Columbus, Ohio, from 1943 to 1945. "I was rudely awakened," he says, "to the need for ... a close-up understanding of how men in industry work, live and think...
...prime discovery of this summer's batch of seminarian-workers is the language barrier between pulpit...