Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medford citizens will file a bill today to investigate the sale and will attempt to legally block an immediate transfer...
...undisclosed sum, Newhouse sold the Globe's printing equipment and block-long, six-story building (built in 1931) to the Pulitzer family's Post-Dispatch. The P-D will move bodily out of its smaller quarters (built in 1917, added to in 1941) into the Globe building; the Globe will lease new office space elsewhere. The P-D will print all editions of the Globe on contract, thereby follow the national trend (Chicago, Chattanooga), dictated by rising costs, of using one set of presses to print morning and afternoon papers. The Globe will abandon its Sunday paper, print...
Speaking in opposition to the proposals at a State House committee hearing, Henry M. Leen, an attorney representing the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and Boston College, said that the bill would allow local zoning appeal boards arbitrary power to block church and school building plans...
...Behrman's favorite stories about Maugham concerns a visit to the estate of an American sculptress. The party came upon a gleaming white block of Italian marble, and Maugham exclaimed to the hostess, "That's the best thing you've ever done!" "But," the artist protested, "I haven't even started; it just came over from Italy. What on earth did you think it was?" "The Immaculate Conception," Maugham replied...
Appearing as attorney for Radcliffe, Robert I. Hunneman '28 opposed the proposal on the grounds that it would cause "serious congestion." He pointed out that it would block off or force relocation of a much-used service driveway near Comstock Hall...