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Word: block (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earlier that day "Buffalo" had exclaimed: "I think it is so appropriate to have Girl Scouts associated with an exhibition of antique furniture." The antiques - $2,000,000 worth of them including Gilbert Stuart paintings, Queen Anne chairs, a Chippendale clock, a Goddard block front desk - had been lent by people like Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. Francis Patrick Garvan, Henry F. du Pont, Walter Jennings. Admissions were charged for the benefit of a $3,000,000 Girl Scout fund which is to be raised in the next five years. Mrs. Hoover brought news from Washington that the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCOUTS: Three Things Wanted | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...best paying building should cover a whole block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skyscraper Economics | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...this year and his expenses are mounting towards $15,000,000. He wants not only to get within his appropriations but to get below it. Dismaying was this call to the carriers who have been hoping to get all first class mail. However, Mr. Brown did not block that prospect specifically. Indeed his second assistant, Warren Irving Glover, volunteered that air mail routes would be extended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...James C. Cooley 3L. James Smith A21 Asst. Dean Langley C. Keyes James Smith C21 E. C. Haggerty 3L. James Smith C26 C. E. Gleason '27 Standish A14 Sterling Dow 4G. Standish C32 Henry Weymer 3L. Standish D24 R. I. Hunneman 2L. Standish E24 Mr. Henry Pennypacker Shepard's Block 5 Madison Sayles 3G.B. Walter Hastings 52 *H. M. Hart Jr. 3L. Walter Hastings 16 *W. J. Kyle Jr. 3L. Westmorly 2 E. M. Weld Jr. 3L. Westmorly 124 G. A. Morgan Jr. 4G. Morris D 11 Prof. Joshua Whatmough Fairfax 307 *E. M. Dowe Prescott Hall K. J. White...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGENT NAMES REVISED GROUP OF 46 PROCTORS | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

Editorial comment is universal in decrying any interested attempt to block a parley which seemed to promise a long step on the road to universal peace. It is hard to see how any intelligent opinion can fail to repudiate such small minded paltering with matters so vital to humanity as a whole, but it is still too early to make specific charges. In a social system which depends so entirely upon the integrity of big corporations, even the most radical can derive but a sad sort of pleasure in a gleeful "I told you so" when big business is cast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MONEY TALKS | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

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