Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three years ago he set up an auction block and knocked down jobless men to such "bidders" as would offer them employment. Last winter he marched crowds of hoboes into Manhattan churches, alleging that they could find no other shelter, but was eventually restrained from such actions by the police...
...year 1863 saw the introduction of the dining car and the block signal system, the first Bessemer rails imported from England and the organization of the first railroad brotherhood-that of Locomotive Engineers. In 1868 came the first Westinghouse airbrake, and in 1872 the first time-table convention and the first electric lights in coaches. In 1883 Standard Time was adopted. Not until 1895 was electrification of steam railroads begun-in the New Haven and B. & O. tunnels...
George Arliss, and the "Old English" players, De Wolf Hopper and his support in "The Student Prince", and the Plymouth Theatre's "Candida" actors are all expected to be represented in this afternoon's audience, though the directors of these companies have not accepted the block of tickets officially...
...then, as Christian teachers, subscribe to your journal or recommend it for subscription? Perhaps you may be able to educate us; we have done our best lo block subscription to TIME because of bur belief that it misrepresents and perverts the news...
...Colonel John C. Coolidge last week fell ill with a disease which his physician described as "heart block." His condition caused some concern, but was not considered critical...