Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatre will have its entrance at 1434 Massachusetts Avenue, in the same block with the College House, opposite Massachusetts Hall. It will be capable of seating about 2,000 persons, and will have a stage fitted out and designed to accommodate any sort of play...
...planning of this collection, the Tribune last fall approached W. S. Burke, Inspector of Grounds and Buildings, in regard to Massachusetts Hall, and as this building was then undergoing alterations, a block of white granite, taken from its resting place of more than 200 years in the foundation of the building, was dispatched on its journey of almost 1000 miles...
...railroad train is thundering through the night, between Boone, la., and Council Bluffs. The engineer is sick, fainting. The fireman drunk, at his post, does not know. On the block of track a mile ahead, a wheezy freight grumbles up a grade, behind schedule and on the flier's rails. Disaster whines through the cab window, for the prostrate engineer has not seen the block signal, his throttle yawns unheeded...
...Boone and Council Bluffs, and announced last week. Fifteen locomotives are already equipped, others being made ready at five per week to a total of 112. The device consists in a series of coils placed in front of the engine's wheels and six inches above the track. The block signals are connected with switches controlling a powerful electric current which enters the rails. The series of effects described above takes place if the engineer does not act at the first warning note of the automatic whistle...
Even juvenile imaginations must strain if they are to exaggerate the prowess of Grange. Only 23, legend has already begun to barnacle his babyhood. Tales are told of how, 14, he won a job with an ice-company by swinging a 100-pound block of ice to his shoulders?of how, at 4, after seeing some track and field games at a county fair, he erected a pole and crossbar and taught himself to highjump. The first of these is given a good smell of truth by the much-touted fact that Grange keeps himself conditioned through the hot weather...