Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machines of war roared past us, filled with expectant, tense-faced participants in this Dday. In one long block I counted seven jeeps, twelve army trucks, two jammed old busses, four pony carts and a pedestrian-all passing...
...islands block the stream...
Spring Drives. In Salina, Kans., WAC Lieut. Linda Barnes drove her car to a garage, found the trouble was simply a bird's nest and three eggs on the motor block. In Los Angeles, Jessie Sachs's motor continued to hum after the ignition was turned off; under the hood was a busy swarm of bees...
Once, on the Senate floor, Truman had brought blushes to the faces of other Senators by a violent attack on Milligan. Only a few weeks before Franklin Roosevelt's death he had tried to block Milligan's reappointment. Senator Harry Truman had never forsworn his allegiance to his old and disreputable boss, nor his grudge against Milligan. President Truman was the same...
When slight, precocious, 16-year-old Freshman "Murray" Butler got his first glimpse of Columbia in 1878, it was a college with 227 students and a little cluster of buildings on one city block. Last week, when 83-year-old Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler handed in his resignation as president of Columbia, the university could boast 30,000 resident students, assets worth $231,561,407, a reputation as one of the biggest and finest universities in the world...