Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particular hurry. On a 160-acre tract of deep country near Oakland, Calif., O'Neill and his wife spent their first years of liberty designing and building a big house as beautiful as their prospects. They christened it Tao House. * In 1935, O'Neill began to block out his massive cycle of plays. Every day he worked from about 8 in the morning until about 1 :30, writing as a rule quite freely and surely, in his elegant, complex, microscopic hand. Carlotta, often with the help of a magnifying glass, typed up each day's work...
...score of the football game may have been 13 to 12, but the Harvard band won an easy victory over the Tiger tooters. The orthographical offering was "Hello Tiger," in big block letters, and the Crimson's musical offerings were far superior, in execution as well as just plain volume, to the Orange and Black efforts. The Princeton had slightly more dapper uniforms, though...
...American magazines is the international currency situation. Fluctuations in exchange make it difficult to set a permanent subscription price. Stringent currency regulations often make it impossible for subscribers to get dollars with which to pay for their subscriptions. In a few other cases government censorship is the stumbling block...
...Power Administration, which represents Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams, is used to getting requests for power: its chief business is to sell it. But by this time it hasn't much to spare. Several months ago, a representative of NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) asked for "a block of power." Bonneville inquired how much was wanted...
After four months of furious effort, the fast-moving real-estate firm of Webb & Knapp Inc. had control of a rundown, 30-acre, eight-block area on the East Side (41st to 49th Streets, First Avenue to the East River). Webb & Knapp promptly announced plans to replace the run-down stables, warehouses, slaughterhouses and tenements with the biggest, costliest city-within-a-city ever built. Cost: $150,000,000. Features: a 57-story office building, three 30-story apartments, a 6,000-capacity convention hall, a yacht landing, a helicopter field, a 5,000,000,000-sq.-ft. parking platform...