Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout Europe statesmen have been asking: "What authority is to decide whether a given question is one in which the U. S. has or has not interest? May or may not the U. S., under Senate Reservation No. 5, claim an interest in any question whatsoever and so block all action by the World Court, at pleasure...
Encompassed by a certain block on Bruton Street, Mayfair, stand The Coach and Horses (a public house), the business establishments of a tailor, corsetiere, photographer, beautifier, decorator, and the residence of Claud George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore...
...declared dissolved the union of Norway and Sweden (1814-1905) and elected as king of Norway, Carl of Denmark, who promptly took the favorite name of the long extinct Norwegian Royal House, Haakon. Sweden, pondering well the power of father-in-law Edward VII, made no serious attempt to block the secession of Norway. Thus Haakon has been called the "chief strategic asset of his people...
...enroll his Times-Union in the Associated Press and bring into its columns the swift, unmuddied current of news that the A. P. pumps from all parts of the U. S. and the rest of the world. Publisher Hearst, whose Rochester paper, has access to that current, determined to block Publisher Gannett and did so by representing to the Associated Press that to grant another franchise would lower the prestige and money value of his own, and indirectly, of all other A. P. franchises...
...next to you in class wears a mask of diseased flesh, he is a wrestler who lost a bout to one or several of the loathsome skin infections that roam at large in our gymnasium. And if, presently you wear a similar mask, though you never went within a block of Hemenway, it just goes to prove that rumour is not the only thing that spreads. Some day the bugs will take that gymnasium up by the roots and walk off with it. Let us hope they walk soon...