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Word: barring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany, Holland, Belgium, Canada, and the U. S. competed against each other. The idea was to determine which one had the best horses and riders; the means of deciding was to have each team ride its mounts around the ring, over jumps. If a horse knocked off the top-bar of a fence (a grave fault), it counted points against him; if he touched it with a lagging hoof (a minor fault) perhaps a half-point was scored against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Bars and Strikes | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Army man; an instructor in the Fort Riley, Kan., military school; about 35; nervous when he is not sitting on a horse. On Dick Waring he took every fence, the little one at the start and the long jump near the the end, without knocking down or touching any bar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Bars and Strikes | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...libellant based its argument on the following points: 1. The libellant has sufficiently shown a presently existing marriage to sustain an action for divorce in this court. 2. The pendency of the suit for divorce brought by the libellant against the respondent in 1925 does not bar this action. 3. The proper interpretation of the divorce statute of this jurisdiction of the facts found by the Mater's Report demand that the libellant be granted a divorce on the ground of desertion. 4. The respondent is not entitled to the divorce which she seeks in her cross-libel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/23/1928 | See Source »

...Martini. People who have never poisoned their bodies with alcohol will find in this film, written by John Thomas, a highly immoral presentation of what happens when a young U. S. femme goes to the Ritz Bar. The furnishings of that bar, human and material, and the somewhat flippant spirit of a father who has been abroad so long he does not recognize his daughter, permit a situation in which probably for the first time in cinema history a good young man is smacked when he tries to correct the morals of a bad young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...York World reported last summer that liquor had been sold over the bar of Dr. Straton's hotel; this caused Dr. Straton to start a $200,000 libel action against the World. The case has not yet been settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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