Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That spectacular race against time that brought Senator Block of West Virginia from California to Charleston with the deciding vote that broke the tie in the West Virginia Senate, practically assures that the women of America will vote next November for President of the United States. With the ratification of the amendment by only two more states, one more milestone in the march of American Democracy will have been passed. The fight that was begun seventy years ago by Susan B. Anthony, that met at first only ridicule, then the active opposition of the conservatives, but gained strength with ever...
...considerable movement into the region northeast of the Adriatic. They were divided into various small tribes, and in the earlier ages most of the them were under the more or less nominal rule of the Avars, Greeks, Franks, Magyars and others. They occupied, and their descendants occupy, a solid block of territory, but they have divided into three parts, that have had extraordinarily little to do with each other. This is due in part, the speaker observed, to physical geography...