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Word: barriers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Piper's collection of jazz and rock 'n' roll records rivals her classical music stock. American culture hits Britain "head-on," she said, "with no softening language barrier." She finds that American plays and motion pictures are more frank and to the point than their British counterparts...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: International Seminar | 7/24/1958 | See Source »

...silt. The stages of the river rarely vary more than 7 ft., and its maximum now is only twice its minimum -bonus factors for hydroelectric development. Yet power engineers surveyed its upper reaches for half a century in hungry frustration; for even longer, navigators eyed it as a barrier and an opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Geographical Surgery Gives the U.S. & Canada a New Artery | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...World's Fair has brought Eurovision's busiest beaming so far. A broadcast of the mid-April opening-day ceremonies was seen by an estimated 30 million in twelve countries, was described by announcers in six languages. This week, from the fair, Eurovision will crack the language barrier by telecasting a pictorial quiz game intelligible to all viewers. Though direct telecasting between Soviet Russia and Eurovision countries is not yet possible, Eurovision breached the Iron Curtain last month when Czechoslovakia and Hungary were hooked into the network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Picture | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Suspicion of student politicians forms a final barrier to international student activity on some American campuses. There is a tendency to equate--often erroneously--NSA work with the local student council...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: American Student Apathy | 5/8/1958 | See Source »

...impressive two-hour adaptation of the play. She persuaded Hallmark Cards' canny President Joyce C. Hall to back her. In those days, two hours of Shakespeare was a heady gamble, but Evans' Hamlet was a whacking success, and Hallmark was credited with breaking TV's time barrier. Since then, Hall of Fame has put on some of TV's best dramatic shows, ranging from The Corn Is Green to Annie Get Your Gun and Twelfth Night, with such able actors as Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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