Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...century, Ulen has nominated three fast men. B. S. Wood '33, captain of last year's team, E. P. Parker '34, and S. M. Wyman '35, will be ready to go to the starting block for this event. Parker and Wood were sprint men on last year's squad, while Wyman swam the 100-yard free style event for the Freshmen. Since last year's meet with the Yale yearlings, Wyman has worked to lower his time and he now covers the four laps in 55 3-5 seconds. If Jennings drops the backstroke to enter this event, the Harvard...
Thirty tons of sand and several large steel plates will furnish backing for the targets and insure against stray bullets, while wooden planking, furnished by the H.A.A. will block off the range from the rest of the district underneath the Stadium...
...Mars, Iowa, 25 farmers gathered to block foreclosure of a mortgage on the home of Dentist George Washington Cunningham. They explained that they all owed Dr. Cunningham for professional services. Events such as the above were what John Andrew Simpson, president of the National Farmers' Union, had in mind last week when he told the Senate Committee on Agriculture: "The biggest and finest crop of revolutions you ever saw is sprouting all over this country right...
...within three months, on completion of a new exchange building by the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. The new building, which will serve all of Cambridge, and will probably affect the private exchange of the University, now located in Lehman Hall, is being erected on Ware Street, a block behind the Freshman Union. Having submitted plans of the new building to the University for approval, the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company decided upon a Georgian form of architecture as being in greatest harmony with most of the more recent College buildings...
...Japan decides to strike at Peiping and Tientsin she holds the Thermopylae through which her Army must pass; 2) if, which is more immediately likely, Japan decides to seize Jehol Province just outside the Great Wall and add it to Manchukuo, her puppet state. Japanese control of Shanhaikwan will block any effective steps which Chinese might try to take to protect Jehol...