Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessity of passing language examinations, so long a stumbling block to many a Harvard student will be considerably lessened according to a recent announcement from University Hall...
...from sub-Cabinet members down to the unchanging, merit-system Civil Service. Obscure bureau chiefs, chief clerks, directors of their deputies, holders of jobs which are virtually permanent so long as their party stays in power, these underlings have exercised great influence over Cabinet officers in inducing them to block organization plans. But a bureaucrat ceases to be a bureaucrat once his resignation is in the President's hands. President Hoover explained that he did not purpose to accept these resignations-except where a minor official might be. deemed inessential or might attempt to stand in Efficiency...
...liable to be arrested, and advised foreign representatives to drive their own trucks. Sixty cases of fine wines and liquors consigned to the Siamese legation started the 4O-mile trip in a U. S. truck, with U. S. drivers, accompanied by Luang Debavadi, third secretary of the legation. A block from the destination, Washington police raided the truck, arrested the U. S. drivers under the Five & Ten law, but later drove the truck on to the legation, helped unload...
These bartenders comprise the ranking industry. For Tiajuana, exotic as it may sound to the dry and fevered U.S. fancy, is nothing but a couple of dirty streets of barrooms. It is almost epic in its drabness. One bar stretches an entire block and announces itself as "The Longest Bar in the World."* Some have mechanical music; some musicians. Most places have small clearings for dancing. All smell...
...proud duenna of the city, the Watch and Ward Society, sees her protege slipping from her firm grasp, but there is always that inevitability of fate, the stumbling block of so many good intentions. The excellent reputation that it succeeded in winning for itself by uncovering the wicked snares of Henry Mencken several years ago has apparently been forgotten. But it does not weep alone. Book sellers and publishers whose wares it was the custom of the society to call to the attention of the public will have to seek other means of attaining the hallowed pages of the Evening...