Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's clangorous Sixth Avenue, a block away from verdant Central Park, stands the garlic-scented Chambers Restaurant and Delicatessen. On one side of the establishment is a bar, on the other a counter piled high with salami, liverwurst and jars of borsch. There, greying...
...Compton Cup, a large, ornate gold object which has rested undisturbed in Newell boathouse since 1937 goes on the block this afternoon at 5:30 p.m., when the varsity crew opens its season against Princeton, M.I.T., and Rutgers...
Although Dartmouth aces Charlis Stewart, Jim Caldwell, Fred Barstow, and Two Arenenberg placed first, third, fourth and fifth. Harvard took a solid block of place (9 to 15) that were almost enough to even the overall combined score in seconds. That block was made up mostly of members of the regular undergraduate ski team...
...through the sunny morning, delegations heaped wreaths on the spot where Gaitán fell. Then, in a 30-block-long procession, they streamed toward the green lawns of the capital's Parque Nacional. The crowd-some 180,000 strong-was the biggest Bogotá (pop. 400,000) had ever seen. At 1:05 p.m., the hour of their martyr's death, screaming horns and sirens made a louder racket than any New Year's celebration the city had ever heard. There was no violence...
...plugged WNEW by lavish advertising, from full-page ads in the Times to broadsides on the backs of laundry slips. Tudie launched Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra; she discovered Martin Block, New York City's first disc jockey. But, mostly, her listeners get a 24-hour-a-day drumfire of musical recordings, commercials and news. As Tudie says, one nice thing about tuning in on WNEW is "you can leave the room and, when you come back, you've missed nothing...