Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressure of war the laboratory expanded its modernistic, fluorescent-lighted, and ventilated office and laboratories to every inch of space of that part of the basement below Sanders Theeater. In conjunction with this, on Oxford Street, opposite Malinkrodt, a peculiar two-story, pill-box-like structure arose. This block of concrete even today is a mystery to most of the people who walk by it, and they would be little enlightened if they knew that it was an anechoic chamber...
...third period, the Dudleyites recovered a fumble on the Puritan 25; but the Winthrop defense tightened and Dudley lost the ball on downs. Busalacchi crashed through to block the Winthrop fourth-down kick and once more Dudley was given a life on the Puritan 11. A penalty and alert Winthrop line play prevented a score and the game wound up with an exchange of pass interceptions in the deepening gloom...
This time there was no bigtime speculator to blame, like New Orleans' Tom Jordan (TIME, Oct. 28). (Tom Jordan, who lost heavily in cotton, put his New York Stock Exchange seat on the block.) But the cotton market was still full of little Tom Jordans. While ceilings were slapped on other major commodities and trading in the stockmarket was put on a cash basis, cotton had been free as a breeze. It could be bought on approximately a 10% margin; it was the speculator's delight...
Labor participation in the management of industry proved a stumbling block to two Debate Council teams last night, as McGill University won unanimous decisions in both halves of a simultaneous home-and-home debate on that question...
...Rutgers eleven that has played considerable good football this fall, with nothing to lose and a great deal of prestige to gain, poses an awkward stumbling block today in the path of Dick Harlow's Varsity squad, as the Crimson team goes in quest of its sixth consecutive victory at the Stadium. Kick-off time 2 o'clock...