Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City of Rome is a coastwise steamer and she plies northward from Savannah to New York and Boston. On a fine clear night last week she steamed out of Long Island Sound into the ocean on the last leg of her northward voyage. Only a few miles beyond Block Island, off the Rhode Island coast she sighted a light off her starboard bow. The light was low on the water and for a time was taken as the light of a rum runner, then suddenly it became apparent that the boat carrying the light was about to cross the steamer...
...letter is not likely to reach its destination if its envelope contains less than five or six lines of addressing. Thus, it is useless to write simply "No. 8, King's Lane, Queen's Court, London." There may be two King's Lanes each a block long; the Postoffice will take no chances...
Significance. Tens, hundreds of thousands of men and women will press this book to their bosoms with thanksgiving. Its morals, its figures of Vice and Virtue, could not be made clearer if they were printed in the block capitals and bright colors of a primer. The readers are practically certain to live purer, finer, braver lives afterwards, as are the millions, too unenlightened to buy the book, who will see it at the cinema...
Recently, however, Manhattan has re-entered the competition. A building syndicate has acquired the block hounded by Lexington Ave., Depew Place, 43rd and 44th Sts., adjacent to the Grand Central Station. On this site will be erected a building rising 30 stories above the street level, and extending seven stories beneath it; it will he completed Mar. 1,1927. The new structure will be the largest office building in the world, since it will contain 21,000,000 cubic feet and have 1,350,000 square feet of office space?30,000 more than the General Motors Building...
...converged upon a small, ill-favored church in the centre of the block flanked by apartment buildings- St. Nicholas Cathedral (mother church of all Russian Orthodox faithful in North America) which faintly reflects the Slavic splendor by its six cupolas above, and by ugly ikons and a seatless rotunda within...