Word: barriers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Suddenly the front rank spotted Commander Waters boldly striding across the forbidden plaza toward the Capitol. The packed mass stirred forward, broke the police barrier. With one tumultuous rush thousands surged across the plaza after their leader...
...greatest Wet surprise of the year was sprung. It was evident that Commander Clark's purpose was to meet the Dry forces well over the halfway mark; to get them, if he could, to unite in a movement which would put Temperance above the 18th Amendment. The only barrier existing between the Crusaders and the Drys that he could see was the fact of the existing Prohibition laws. Much interested, Secretary Wilson so plainly expressed his approval of the Crusaders' "fair and constructive stand" on Temperance that next day Chicago newspapers drew the exaggerated conclusion that...
...vaults, although it is known that the chambers will be two stories below street level, built on bedrock below sea level. Less secretive about its vaults is Federal Reserve Bank of New York, perhaps feeling that the massiveness of its defense system would forestall any foolish foray upon it. Barrier after barrier protects the gold room which lies 85 ft. below street level, can be entered only through a 4-ft. passageway which cuts through a 9-ft. steel cylinder, a turn of which can shut it off. Outer wall below the street is 8½ ft. of steel...
...over a mile-and-a-quarter of chocolate-colored loam at Churchill Downs, takes a few seconds more than two minutes. As the horses paraded to the post last week, Crystal Prince shied at the loud band playing "Swanee River." Cee Tee and Tick On made trouble at the barrier. Cee Tee was placed outside and when the barrier finally sprang after 15½ min., Tick On was pocketed behind the field. It took Fator on Brother Joe about a half-mile to find that he had picked the wrong horse. Brother Joe pulled up lame and Fator could...
...Austrian Empire after the War the Allies broke up the important economic unit of the Danube valley whose very economic existence depends upon free trade within itself, and substituted for it the three small states of modern Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia; each of these has built up a tariff barrier of its own with the result that trade among those countries is at an extremely...