Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readers who tried to solve the block-counting questions had an impossible task. Somewhere in the process of publication you have deleted a line from one pile of blocks and added a line to the other, making the blocks in each pile of unequal size...
Language is the root and the starting place, though, and approximately one-half of the first year of study is devoted to learning the immense Chinese language. When the theory of this language is once mastered, the biggest stumbling block is removed; from then of facility comes with practice and only a quarter of the second year's work consists of language study...
...York City's oldest and most famed churches was busy last week lengthening its cords and strengthening its stakes. Only a block and a half from the twin towers of 100-year-old St. George's on once-fashionable Stuyvesant Square, an 18-block housing development was abuilding. This project and others nearby might mean a tripling of St. George's 3,453 membership, a proportionate expansion of its extensive community activities. The challenge fitted St. George's tradition and was welcome...
...sizzling boil by Preston Tucker, a small-time promoter with big ideas of making autos in the Chicago plant. He had agreed in September to lease it from the War Assets Administration. But NHA had ordered the plant to go to Lustron. In a frantic effort to block this, Tucker came up with a dark tale. His story: a lawyer approached him, just before the National Housing Administration ordered the plant turned over to Lustron, and promised to block the deal if Tucker 1) gave him $400,000 in stock in his company and 2) hired...
...then got off a kick on the bottom of his shoes . . . . Chip performed like a veteran, gaining the praise of both sides . . . . Jackson came back later in the game with a series of fine plays . . . . he almost went all the way once, but was stopped by a flying block by Gannon...