Word: blocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against TVA, a crowd which jammed the railroad yards heard him call upon the populace, which voted solidly against public ownership of the city's light system year ago, to overrule "obstructionists, few in number in comparison with the whole population [who] are leaving no stone unturned to block and harass and to delay this great national program...
...Father of His Country. For this they got Congress to vote $5,000, and commissioned U. S. Sculptor Horatio Greenough to carve the figure. Sculptor Greenough promptly went off to the soft Tuscan air of Florence, Italy, where he rented a large studio, enlarged it further, secured a huge block of Carrara marble, sharpened his chisels, and went to work...
...Tower was acknowledged, reproachfully, perhaps, by the gift of an inscribed copy of the English Prayer Book. With this as a last act, Lady Jane drew near the scaffold on Tower Hill, beholding on route the gory body of her husband, who had preceded her to the block. The execution took place, amidst popular lamentations, on the twelfth of February...
...earliest existing fragments of wood-block printing, a Chinese prayer scroll printed in 975 A.D. and recovered from the famous Red Pagoda, or Lai-fund Pagoda, at Hangchow, has been donated to the University Library of Jerome D. Green '96, director of the Tercentenary Celebration. The scroll, obtained by Mr. Greene in China in 1931, and said to be the only one of its kind of such ago in America, will be placed in the Treasure Room...
...praised the amendments to the Securities Act, humbly suggested a few others to make the law more workable. They thanked the Government for aiding their oldest clients, the railroads. And, most notable of all, they called upon their biggest clients, the public utilities, to desist from their efforts to block the Government's power plans...