Word: block
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weak word, but it is the only one applicable to the Brown pictures, shown yesterday at a press meeting with Dick Harlow in the H.A.A. office. This sounds like an alibi on Saturday's game, but the movies brought out clearly that on several plays one clean line block instead of a half one would have made the difference, not just between two and ten yards, but between two and a touchdown...
...train had to nose a house out of its way as it crawled, half-submerged, to safety, dragging telephone poles by their fallen wires, leaving all but one car behind in a washout. A capsized naval training ship started a fire in New London that consumed an entire city block. Mrs. Helen E. Lewis, Republican nominee for Connecticut Secretary of State, was drowned with her husband when their island cottage at Stony Creek was swept away...
...black book with the gaudy scarlet label, the new Government 1 syllabus. Completely overshadowing its dull-brown History 1 prototype, this flashy volume is tangible evidence of extensive reorganization in one of Harvard's most important courses. There were no recalcitrant conservatives or betrayers of democracy to block this measure of government reorganization, for the department's survey course has, in the past, been a black sheep of the social sciences. Popularly criticized by undergraduates, it has been found wanting generally in organization and integration, in cooperation between lecturer, reading matter, and section men. Favorite plaint was its inflation...
...group represents the Middle Class voting block which Curley has reached only slightly, but which might be a valuable asset in the coming campaign for governor...
...Frankly, at times Vag thinks Mr. Harlow ought to know more about Vag. Just because he sometimes writes pretty sentimental stuff about the things he likes or about things which floor him doesn't mean that Vag can't get down closely enough to earth to throw a good block...