Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presence of a true entrance not far away. Brushes were applied to the rock nearby and every particle of dust and mud was removed. Nothing was found. Then knives were procured and the surface was scraped. Finally the efforts of the workers were rewarded, by the finding of a block of grey limestone set into the same kind of rock in the platform. The block was fitted so carefully that the edge of a razor could not enter the cracks which were all but invisible even after scraping. With great difficulty the first block was removed and it was found...
From the perfect condition of the block and the intact slate of the microscopically thin sheets of plaster of paris between them it is certain that the tomb was never broken into. Any other entrance into such a well-like structure is out of the question. For weeks the work went on of the question. For weeks the work went on of the clearing of the ponderous limestone blocks. The shaft grew deeper and deeper. All records for depth were broken. Temporary quarters for the workers were built the hole and barbed wire was put up to keep off prying...
...mirage that has been flickering for weeks over a whole city block on Manhattan's upper West Side, ceased flickering last week and stood motionless, a fixed vision. It has the shape of a skyscraper of the Babylo-American style. It is the home-to-be of the Metropolitan Opera Company, a towering image of efficient U. S. culture...
...Metropolitan's wings, so the course of events leading up to last week's vote in the Metropolitan board of directors was not without conflict and a tinge of acrimony. Last December Otto Hermann Kahn, chairman of the board and largest stockholder, bought the city block bounded by 56th and 57th Sts. and by 8th and 9th Aves. He did this quietly, anonymously, and proceeded to bring about the Metropolitan's vote of removal. There is a conservative faction in the producing company, stockholders with blood of deepest indigo and an inbred suspicion of change. To control...
...contributing cause for the decline. The great numbers of new country clubs might have been cited as another cause, taking ball-players from the sandlots to the golf links not only as players but as caddies. With prosperity have come automobiles, wherein infant Sislers, Lajoies, Heinie Zims tour the block instead of the bases...