Word: blocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight, after the Wildcats lost their first two games (to Oklahoma and Ohio State), an editorial in the student newssheet, Daily Northwestern, charged that the linemen were refusing to block for their ballyhooed star, Sophomore Bill De Correvont. Angered, the Wildcats promptly beat Wisconsin 13-to-7, and last week swamped Illinois 13-to-0, even though De Correvont failed to get going...
Although Charley's kicking was disappointing, his running and passing were almost sensational, considering that Saturday was his first appearance that Saturday was his first appearance in the tailback berth, and it was Charley's two man block that paved the way for Lee's touchdown...
...channel, perhaps through Switha Sound, so close to shore that it was deemed by the British unthinkably dangerous and not worth mining or netting. But his own account of the adventure pointed most strongly to the eastern entrance of Scapa Flow, through narrow Holm Sound, where rocks and wrecks block all but a narrow gut close up to the main Orkney Island of Pomona...
...last August Earl Jones made up his mind to start a newspaper of his own. He set wreckers to work tearing down a three-story apartment house one block off Zanesville's main street. When he learned that the job would take two weeks, he brought in crews and equipment from his mines, wrecked the building overnight. Then, under floodlights, working night & day, his men started putting up a new $75,000 brick, steel and concrete newspaper plant...
...this publicity went, it did Mr. Smith Goes to Washington no harm at all. But there was a chance that the picture might get the Senatorial dander up to the danger point. The Neely Block-Booking Bill, now locked up in the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee, would prevent big movie producers from compelling exhibitors to book a whole list of pictures in order to get one on the list which they want. Hollywood would much prefer to have the Neely bill stay locked up. Last week irate Senators talked of getting...