Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This intersection of Mt. Auburn Street is quite as dangerous, and quite as much used, as that already marked one block farther down. Last evening's accident was, providentially, only a timely warning and not a tragic lesson, to the Cambridge authorities. The spot should be marked, and, until it is, students will do well to continue to approach it cautiously...
...bourgeoisie and Bryan as a scion of the organized, predatory plutocracy. For Bryan lived in a two-story house on D Street, I in a one-story cottage and John paid $10 a month for a room in the third story of a downtown business block...
...houses of Congress, when they must be subject to the veto power of the President, and yet again subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States, that a further check was needed in the shape of power, placed in the hands of one Senator, to block all legislation-power that he might sometimes use for his own personal gain...
...world is used to heroes illustriously sired. "A chip of the old block," folk say of Pitt, the son of Pitt, of Dumas fils, of the young Adams, the young Hammond, the young Rockefeller. "Just like his father, only more so," said the ancients when Philip's son, Alexander, became tearful with success. But who was Cleopatra's daughter? What heroine did Dido mother? Joan of Arc, Queen Bess, Florence Nightingale, Jane Addams are all ineligible by hypothesis; and it is not recorded that Sarah Bernhardt had a daughter. But what of Portia and other married celebrities...
...Osler, H. M. Blackmer of the Midland Refining Co., James E. O'Neil of the Prairie Oil and Gas Company and others had undertaken a fake transaction in oil by which they made some millions- that these profits were converted into Liberty Bonds- that Secretary Fall got a block of these bonds for the Teapot Dome Lease. Osler, Blackmer and O'Neil have taken up quarters in Europe beyond the Court's reach...