Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Committee has procured an ideal site for the Library building. It is a large plot, almost square, with a frontage of over two hundred feet, or somewhat less than a city block. The building will face the large central square of the town, La Place du Pueple, a grass-covered common intersected with walks and dotted with trees and shrubbery...
...this afternoon on the Divinity courts. The Colgate team comes here with an enviable reputation, due largely to the fact that the four men who compose the team are veterans of last year's undefeated season. In the present University team, however, Colgate is apt to find a stumbling block. As the visiting team has only four members, the contest will be limited to four singles and two doubles instead of the usual number of nine individual matches. This reduction is almost sure to be of an advantage to the Crimson, for the Providence match, where the first three singles...
...wars. It has certainly changed the international medium, and has established trust and confidence where none previously existed. Hitherto each nation competed with its neighbor because each nation feared the neighbor. Under the veil of competition there lay a feeling of distrust, a lack of confidence. Now that stumbling block to international harmony has been done away with, but the Conference failed to touch the fundamentals of war. The present Four-Power Treaty is good, but only a step forward. It is good because it represents an advance in numbers over the previous pact. Four is better than...
...many educational projects of today, few deserve more commendation. No one can tell whether the scheme will work, and there are many obstacles in its way, but it is certainly worth the $15,000 or so that it will cost. The chief stumbling block would be--always providing that the Soviet government lives up to its promises--the excessive conservatism of the farming class. In every nation the farmer is the hide-boundest of the hide-bound. What was good enough for the farmer's grandfather and for his grandfather before him is good enough for him; he wants none...
...agricultural products is due to the general collapse of business and to the unusually large crops in 1920. But this situation is not serious, as a great deal of this stock has been exported and now the surplus has been nearly liquidated, so there are no excessive stocks to block recovery of prices in the coming months...