Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wall of Sheshonk's tomb was a huge block of pink granite. Professor Montet, who has directed digs at Tanis since 1929 and discovered (at Byblos) the oldest known alphabetical inscription, is no mean archeologist. He suspected that behind that block was a passageway leading to the tomb of Psousennes. He was right...
...industries -Du Pont, Douglas Aircraft, American Tobacco, Santa Fe, Norfolk & Western, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Last week many a hungry broker hoped he would be tapped for help, get a fat commission in their sale. But who would be tapped, what commission would be paid, how rapidly the first block of equities would be sold, few in Wall Street knew, if any knew at all. Mr. Gifford was as hard to find as a sliced brassie shot on a Scottish moor. In Manhattan for a month before his appointment was announced, he had been seen by partners of J. P. Morgan...
...finding nary a ripple left in the indoor pool, they have again changed the time, and pushed the swimming meet back on top of the hockey game. But still it's not too late to straighten things out. The majority of those who intend to come, the great block of undergraduate sports followers and outsiders really interested in the teams, can be reached through adequate publicity, and given a chance to see both of these events. It is reassuring to know that the H. A. A. is planning to avoid these mixups next year, but the time to start...
Expansion is Possible If We Do Not Block It. ... Republicans are convinced that a sustained expansion of our enterprise is not only possible but inevitable if public policy does not throw too many obstacles in the way. There are no assignable limits to the possibilities of American enterprise except the limitations we create by our own lack of intelligence and will, or by falling into a fatalism of outlook as the New Deal leadership has done through its misunderstanding of Economic America...
...instantaneous student and Faculty protest. The Administration was charged with ruthless undermining of the English, Government, and Biology Departments. This fall the Student Council and Phi Beta Kappa added their voices to the mounting roar of protest, and the Faculty opposition led by the Teachers' Union and a powerful block of conservative rebels belabored the Administration for what they believed to be a blind and mistaken policy of retrenchment. By December, however, the crisis was over...