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Word: block (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRIMSON building is on Plympton Street, and has a door newly-painted, in appropriate shades, for the better guidance of uncertain would-be Crimeds. He careful not to confuse it with a local pants prescribe a block further down, which also has a red door. You can tell the business office by a sign on a door at the right as you go in, saying Business Office. But don't go there; follow the crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scribes Extend Beery Gladhand to Would-Be Journalists | 11/25/1947 | See Source »

Still without a food-saving plan to bring before the student body, the seven-week-old Student Council Subcommittee on Food hit a now stumbling block last Friday, as University Administrative vice-president Edward Reynolds '15 turned thumbs down on any proposal which would use majority rule to impose involuntary saving on the entire student body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reynolds Hits 'Forced' Food Saving Plans | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Duffy v. Dreadnought. Newark, which recently agreed to lease its port facilities to the Port of New York Authority (TIME, Nov. 3) for an $11,000,000 development program, thought the New Mex would block the program by tying up pier space. So Newark's Mayor Vincent Joseph Murphy, egged on by the local press, ordered out the city's two fire boats, Michael P. Duffy and William J. Brennan, to block the port's narrow entrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCRAP: The Cold War | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...returned a five question, sheet, the Council tossed in two more questions, looked at the poll and heaved it into the waste paper basket. Two more weeks of unhappy revisions followed and now a third poll dealing exclusively with bread, pie, and wheat cereals lies on the chopping block. A grand total of seven weeks to find out if Harvard wants to save food...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Cats | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

Indians Main Stumbling Block...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

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