Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop Manning, with a silver trowel in his hand, strode down the aisle in swishing panoply until he confronted an enormous block of golden Poughkeepsie granite propped up in the south end of the Cathedral by a block and tackle. Trustee George W. Wickersham described how, in the pit prepared for the stone, lay a copper box, 18 inches long, lined with tin, filled with relics of the Church, lists of contributors, newspapers, American coins. Then, while the people repeated the Lord's Prayer, the Bishop traced the sign of the cross upon the rock with his trowel; Architect...
...Bainbridge Colby, Actress Julia Marlowe, Poet Edgar Lee Masters, made speeches, and those who read the proud colophon upon the tablet and listened to the eloquence of Col. Ingersoll's admirers, reflected how, 40 years ago, the State of Delaware had offered him an entertainment on its whipping block, and how the bitter attacks of his many enemies filled the newspapers...
...CAMERA MAN. As a matter of fact, the "speedy work" was not so notable as it might have seemed, for the accident had occurred within a stone's throw of the editorial rooms of the News; a camera man had merely to dash down stairs and run a block to take the offensive photograph. In this example of horrifying journalism there was the smell of an excuse, for the victim had not been killed-merely knocked down, internally injured, and fractured in the skull. There was life in the corpselike shape-all that was earthly of one John Flake...
...Block that kick! Block that kick ! "The Yale cheering section repeated the phrase monotonously in the belief that it would annoy Slagle (Princeton) who was about to punt. Evidently it did, for Slagle, instead of kicking, started for the Yale right end with the ball under his arm. A few moments later he was 82 yards farther down the field, which was as far as he needed to go. In the next period, when Princeton was in danger, Dignan punted 71 yards. These two fabulous feats, plus the work of a line that never wavered, made it possible...
...call on a dozen men who could give the time to coaching as many different positions on the team, and she has no head corresponding to Mr. Camp, who, with the assistance of these various sub-coaches, is able to develop perfect team work, and more important, perhaps, to block the various combinations worked out by their opponents...