Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Armed Services Committee that Navy morale was good and that the only dissatisfaction came from a few hotheads in the Navy's air arm. The Secretary of the Navy was treated to loud and sardonic laughter from his assembled subordinates when he protested that he knew of no "block" against naval officers' speaking their views...
...kick. Lowenstein's punt carried from the Crimson 34 to the Army 30, but Shultz ran it back to the Harvard 40. Pollock and Stephenson alternated on seven straight power runs, the latter scoring from the 17 over Harvard's left tackle. This time Bob DiBlasio broke through to block the conversion attempt...
Army brass was in contact with the ticket office all day yesterday seeeking additional allocations on the Harvard side of the field. There seems little likelihood that any Army ducats in the original block of six sections will be returned unused. These seats, coupled with those of season ticket holders, assure a full house on the visitors' side...
...Army Reserve, Mellon took off his uniform and thought even harder. On the night he and Mrs. Mellon returned to Pittsburgh the city was engulfed in black smog so thick that from the William Penn Hotel they could not see the lights of the Mellon National Bank, half a block away...
...Cokesbury Book Store staked out a claim as the biggest in the U.S. It made no difference to Cokesbury that Manhattan's Brentano's and Macy's disputed the claim. With hymn and prayer befitting its ownership by the Methodist Church,* and with typical Texasity, the block-long, five-story Cokesbury opened a three-story addition and plugged away at surpassing its sales of $1,635,000, profits of $140,000 during its last fiscal year...