Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years. Yale with a system quite as dissimilar, Cambridge under a totally different conception of the curriculum, can scarcely compete with Harvard under a divisional plan in absolute accord with the terms of the competition. Harvard has made its own rules. This would be an obvious stumbling block in any field of competition. And particularly in the field of scholarship, one finds no definite limits, no rules of the game, whereby one and all may compete on the same grounds...
Harvard's slim hope of victory tonight hangs on the ability of the Crimson defense effectively to block the Yale drives before they reach the Crimson cage
...some more you could see William Harrison Dempsey, the evening's promoter; Estelle Taylor, cinemactress when she isn't being Mrs. Dempsey; A J Drexel Biddle Jr., Harvey S. Firestone, John Ringling, Baron & Baroness de Bonsetten, Irving Berlin, Senator Robert M. ("Young Bob") La Follette, Publisher Paul Block. Charles B. Dillingham. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst...
...PAUL BLOCK, Publisher of metropolitan newspapers: "America has lost one of its most brilliant publishers and writers-one who accomplished in a few years what many publishers have tried to do in many years. I am so deeply shocked at the loss of this fine outstanding man and publisher that I am not able to express my feelings...
...ghost with the gift of flitting through walls flit through the rear wall of Guaranty Trust and continue flitting, it would flit through the rear wall of National Bank of Commerce. For these two great U. S. banks stand back to back. Between them they own almost the entire block bounded by Broadway and Nassau, Cedar, Liberty Streets...