Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truly wonderful article. A technical correction, however: ". . . leaving the quarterback free to block ahead of runner or tear downfield for a pass . . ." The official N.C.A.A. football rules, Rule 7, Sec. 3, Article 3b, on Eligibility to Catch a Pass, says: "Each player [is eligible] who is in an end position on the line of scrimmage and each player who is legally in his backfield and who is not in a position to receive a hand-to-hand snap from the center...
...interest on loans made through the Bank of Canada. That situation was obviously untenable; chartered banks would have been able to borrow from the government, then lend back the government's own funds to the treasury at a higher rate of interest. The speediest way to block such uneconomic transactions was to raise the Bank of Canada rate...
This plan works well when it is intended to prevent block-voting, by national-origin or religious groups, or even by large fraternity groups. No such groups exist here, and the plan effectively solves a non-existent problem. The main effect it can have is to elect the big-name football player to the class committee if he is put down as a ninth choice and works...
...corduroy jacket walked over to us and asked, "Do you know parliamentary procedure?" We admitted that we did, and he asked us how to block the move for more members. "Move to adjourn," we whispered, and he did so. The president's jaw fell open about four inches. The vice president smiled ghoulishly, and voted for adjournment, but he was the only one besides corduroy jacket...
...Eisenhower, the Business School constituted the largest single block of votes. His victory there by 422 ballots was more than enough to overcome Stevenson leads in Adams, Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell, Dudley, Radcliffe, the Law School, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...