Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will establish assembling plants in rural towns so that farmers may throw together a Ford in their spare time during the winter. As a presidential candidate, he would profit immensely by a mailing list of twenty million--even if all of them were debtors; but two things appear to block this ambitious scheme: the saturation point, and Citizen Citroen...
Among the features of the display, which will be made under the direction of Mr. H. C. Block, will be advance information on new books, talks on the modern novelists, and the secrets of good book making. Professor W. L. Phelps, commenting on a similar exhibition held at Yale recently, said, "I am very glad that Mr. Block is exhibiting this afternoon some of Alfred Knopf's publications. Mr. Knopf is one of the most enterprising of modern publishers, and many of his books are interesting and valuable. The manuscripts and rare books are very fascinating and Mr. Block...
...nearest berg, what would they do? Would they argue that the important thing was to teach him a jolly good lesson-give the old man rope to hang himself, and so on, and let the ship drive on? Or would they do everything in their power to block him and incidentally save the ship ? "Mayor Hylan is the captain. And New York City the ship...
...part of the international system of two rival New York syndicates. Both of these organizations ship their liquor directly from England and Scotland in tramp steamers to St. Pierre, Miquelon. Here it is transshipped to three-masted Gloucester fishing smacks, carrying 2,000 cases each, which make up the Block Island squadron...
...Gray Ghost-terror of Block Island...