Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every life, you know there comes some one big crisis. Here is the story of mine. In 1909 I took over the janitorship, for such it was then called of this block of stores. Of course, the problem of residue is one of the regular ones of the janitorial career, but rarely does it approach the dimensions of a crisis, still more rarely of a Crisis. I had successfully disposed of the waste products of the carious tailoring establishments, smoke shops, and lunchrooms which occupy the building. Then suddenly it came...
...January I went down to the cellar as usual. I started back in horror against the bulkhead, for the cursed white flood was rising higher. The tide of pamphlets had seemed to run in fortnightly or monthly waves. By keeping the block of stores at 95 degrees throughout the fall, I had been able to hold the paper flood in check, but what was I to do when the paper spring tides were upon...
...suits for escape through torpedo tubes or conning tower?were all said by the Navy Department to have been studied, tested and found impracticable. The Navy Department's memorandum of last week on safety devices was prepared last year to answer constructive criticism of the S-51 disaster off Block Island...
...coast guardsmen grappled what seemed like the S-4's hull, more than 100 feet down and several hundred yards from where a "slick" of oil had marked the sinking ship's disappearance. Depth rescuers-including crews and equipment which finally raised the famed S-51 off Block Island two years ago (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925) -hurried to Provincetown from the New London, Newport, and Brooklyn Navy Yards. A diver groped his way down to the hulk and tapped with his hammer. Answering taps came from the torpedo room in the submarine's bow. Six men were...
...evidence. The soft-drink boys sarcastically asked him if he did not expect to get something more than $5 per day out of the trial? perhaps a snappy automobile? Juror Kidwell hoped to tell them he expected an automobile. "If I don't have one as long as this block," he boasted, "I'll be kind of disappointed...