Word: blocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slowly for the Crimson. Hartwick once again took the initiative, but could not get past the Crimson fullbacks. On one play, the Warriors charged Meyers with three forwards. Sophomore fullback Chris Wilmot-whom Munro calls the "sweeper" on his 3-man defense-managed to turn away one Warrior, block the other two, and gain possession of the ball...
...largest building block in the Kennedy fortune is Chicago's huge Merchandise Mart, the world's biggest commercial structure. Joe Kennedy acquired it in 1945 for just under $13 million, and turned what seemed a gigantic white elephant into a stupendous profit maker. It is now valued at $75 million...
...funniest scene of the evening is a birthday party for the father, with the ceiling festooned with frankfurters, and a cake shaped like a chopping block. The father vows that he will not touch the cake. Grudgingly, he accepts a piece, bites skeptically into it, whereupon his face unclouds with delight as he discovers that the cake is made of meat. Moments like that are rare in a season, let alone a play, and they make Who's Happy Now? a minor treasure...
...while, and then, on Monday before The Game, we decided to get down to serious work. The masthead had to be copied, and we used a process by which we could transfer it exactly from a copy of the Yalie Daily onto an engraved wooden block. It was fairly easy. Then Barry Simon, one of the demonic minds on the business board, sold a full page ad on the back of the one-page extra to Gnomon Copy, a xerox establishment on York Street in New Haven. That took care of the major part of the cost, and gave...
...commission insisted that houses maintain a consistent setback, and limited the heights of buildings. That sounds ordinary enough. But the solid even-block front is an honestly urban form, as well as a visually harmonious one. And these block fronts didn't become bleak. This is partly because of the plantings. But also, the buildings these Victorians built bulge with eclectic detail that interrupts the facade-plane. Oriel and bay windows bend out to gather light...