Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American-occupied zone, control authorities kicked out 40,000 Berlin block, street and house leaders. They had originally been appointed by the Russians to search out known Nazis, handle ration cards, report on available labor. The American report was that the small-fry German leaders had begun to wield power in their neighborhoods just as arrogantly as their predecessors in Germany's notorious block organizations had done under Hitler; some of them had actually worked under the Nazi regime. (The British still held to the block leaders, warned them not to consider themselves little kings but servants...
...Traxler lists hundreds of elaborate tests designed to find out all about a schoolboy by "measuring" his background, attitude, aptitude, achievement and personality. Some of them: the Tweezer Dexterity Test and the Wiggly Block Test, to measure manual skill; the Cardall-Gilbert Test of Clerical Competence; the Meier-Seashore Art Judgment Test, the California Test of Mental Maturity, and the Orleans Geometry Prognosis Test (to predict the ability of pupils who never studied the subject...
Hogs Are Lucky. For Emperor Young, the vision of a transcontinental line was more than just a dream. Through the Alleghany Corp., he has a large block of Missouri Pacific bonds. If he could get the MOP, he would have a line west to Denver-and through MOP's half-control of the Denver & Rio Grande Western, all the way to Salt Lake City. From Salt Lake City to San Francisco runs the Western Pacific, the small but spunky rival of the Southern Pacific (which owns the other half of D. & R. G. W.); Arthur Curtiss James...
Auto Reflex. In Toledo, Mrs. Margaret Cook's car blew a tire at a railroad crossing, careened down the tracks, struck a signal switch, threw a red block against an approaching freight train...
...bridegroom doggedly lasted out a double-row, round-the-block reception line, pumping the hands of the men and kissing the women on the cheek. The bride had to retire with a dizzy spell...