Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East, the resourceful townspeople decorated the lampposts with sprays of wheat. Doubly welcome were the King and Queen for with them came rain for dusty fields. That night at little Moose Jaw, despite rain and the exhausting ceremonies in Regina, the Queen insisted on making an eight-block parade through muddy cheering streets. After the departure of the royal party, Moose Jaw went on the biggest binge in its history...
Swing. In small, low-ceiled, table-touching spots where there is hardly room enough to swing a cat, the "cats" swing the room late and loud. Headquarters for swing is Manhattan's sand Street with its solid block of night spots (during speakeasy days, an irate 5 2nd Street householder defensively posted a sign reading "Private House"). On 52nd Street is The Onyx Club, Swing's self-styled "cradle," where Crooner Maxine Sullivan hops things up; The Famous Door, where Trumpeter Louis Prima lays siege to the eardrums; Jack White's 18 Club, which goes...
...papers on aircraft design in which he tries to keep up in his spare time. He seldom goes out, dislikes social functions, steers clear of parties and tries to keep at work. When he feels overworked, which sometimes happens after a hard day, he takes a turn around the block and goes...
...keep what they have and the countries struggling to expand. Or they see it as the clash of rival ideologies or of rival imperialists, with a vast segment of the world looking to Great Britain to maintain order while protecting her remote dominions, and another segment threatening to block her channels of communication with them. Or they see it as a problem of overpopulation in the crowded centres of the world, the masses of Europe and Japan swelling and pressing against the barriers that block them from the sparsely inhabited areas of the globe. Or they...
Leading the Crimson attack for the second game this season, Dave Colwell, former Ell football punter, booted a conversion and a penalty goal to the tune of five points. He was allowed his penalty kick half way through the final period after a Princeton had fouled by attempting to block...