Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lunchers well knew, Senator Johnson had been fighting for years to have the Federal Government block up the Colorado River with the Boulder Dam (between Arizona and Nevada) and give Los Angeles a bigger & better water and power supply. They also knew that the Issue forecast by Senator Johnson is against what is commonly called the Power Trust, meaning the potent, propagandizing private interests who have sought to prevent the erection of a Federal project on the Colorado...
Englishwomen, robust and resolute, obtained the vote after smashing shopwindows, slapping policemen, hunger striking. French suffragettes, no less resolute, but not so robust, perfected last week a feminine program designed to terrorize those Senators of France who obstinately continue to block French women's suffrage...
...Lincoln Highway of the Arctic follows a line drawn, roughly, from the extreme northern point of Norway across the island of Spitsbergen to Point Barrow, Alaska. If you fly about half this distance and look down, as likely as not you will see the block of ice which happens to be the North Pole. At that point you may shake hands, as Pilgrims Byrd and Bennett did in May, 1926. Or you may bare your head, as Pilgrims Nobile, Amundsen, Ellsworth, etc., did in May, 1926. Or you may fly sternly on, as Pilgrims Wilkins and Eielson did in April...
...small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana, whose candidacy every one accepted much as a paunchy oldtimer is accepted in a golf championship, Candidate Curtis telephoned his approval when he heard how Watson was conniving to block Hoover. "Go to it, Jim," he called. "I'm with...
Hupmobile was William Crapo Durant's. He owns, reputedly, a large block of Hupmobile shares. He controls, too, Durant Motors (Durant and Star cars), Locomobile Co. of America, and more than a year ago he formed Consolidated Motors, Inc. in Delaware, and advertised in 48 newspapers of 29 cities that "exactly as the Buick in 1908 was used as the nucleus and the Keystone of the great General Motors," he intended to use the new Star Six for his new company. Financial writers jeered at Mr. Durant as a stockjobber (TIME, April...