Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lack of a proper system of child guidance is Morris' chief bone of contention' with the present system. His platform calls for a complete achievement record to be kept on each individual pupil, so that a precocious kindergarten block builder would possibly be steered into the construction trades as a high school youth, if his talent continued to express itself...
...knee-high style. And in Oildale, Calif., Mrs. Louise Horn gave a timely demonstration of the dangers lurking in the New Look. As she alighted from a bus, her new long, full skirt caught in the door. The bus started up and she had to run a block before the bus stopped and she was freed...
...sign in front of the Granite Block Spa, across from Fall River's City Hall, proclaimed in neon lights: "Joe Martin, Our Next President." Hastily, the Joe Martin Day Committee advised the proprietor that this wasn't the right idea...
When all the guests had gone, Joe went back to the kitchen and autographed the aprons of the waitresses and dishwashers, then drove off for his summer home in Sagamore on Cape Cod. Other guests drove back into Fall River. Opposite the City Hall, the sign outside Granite Block Spa now said with bare coherence: "Joe Martin...
...Evans is too good a Presbyterian to be overly impressed by his church's new pre-eminence and the block-long queues that often form outside it on Sundays. Says he. "Mere size doesn't matter." He would like the world to realize "that Hollywood isn't just a glitter spot; it is also a remarkably Godly spot. The press has given a distorted picture of our community. There is an enormous spiritual hunger here, and one of the finest groups of people in the world. Do you know that more divinity students are coming from Hollywood...