Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crowds along South St. Paul's Concord Street jeered as the helmeted guardsmen seized several pickets who tried to block workers' cars. Then, with bayonets prodding those who did not step lively, the militiamen cleared more than a mile of Concord Street of all bystanders. The guardsmen swarmed around Minnesota's marble-domed Capitol as strikers went to protest to Governor Youngdahl. Said the governor: "You can't win a strike by anarchy . . . Have a little faith that I am working for you . . . Keep your shirts...
...make people want to learn is not a simple problem. Its chief stumbling block in local educational philosophizing has always been the fear that any change in the delicate balance of faculty and students would lead away from the independence of which the University and the College have been so proud. There is a thesis which implies that any change toward making people want to learn will mean a dean's office telling students what courses to take, or perhaps a psychoanalyst asking each man what he is thinking every...
This stumbling block of precious independence is in fact a false and unnecessary obstacle. Change in the method of learning does not imply that students must be told what to learn. Effective or ineffective educational methods can be used with Eliot or with Hutchins. In fact, more interference from a central college authority is not equal to better education...
...moviegoers, the decisions meant that they would get first-run pictures quicker in neighborhood houses at lower prices, and perhaps better movies. Without block booking as an automatic sales device for bad movies, Hollywood would have to jack up its standards all around...
...although he has lived in Soviet Russia most of his life, and is a seasoned professional agent. His reasons for changing sides are also rather thinly explored ; and some of the top spies are such blatant fiends that the most innocent man in the street could spot them a block away. But such imperfections hardly lessen the impact of the picture as a whole...