Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shop on the ground floor, an apartment above. Each house is about two feet square, wired for electricity with a tiny fixture in the ceiling of each room. Encouraged by the success of these, Delano & Aldrich talents were bent last week on two new models: a larger business block with a restaurant and grocery on the ground floor, and an even larger Georgian mansion. Chief Draughtsman W. Bowman enthused: "It has a lovely staircase." These will sell at slightly higher prices...
...Apted '06, superintendent of Yard Police, is detailing a special night and day guard to watch over the four and a half-ton block of Caen marble until it is safely ensconced in the Church...
...President Hoover dabbed a butter pat of mortar on stone. Chief Justice Hughes heaped the trowel full. Mr. Thompson did likewise. Then a master mason scraped off their dabs, spread a skilful smear of his own while four workmen gently swung into place a three-and-one-half-ton block of Vermont marble inscribed "A. D. 1932." Within the cornerstone Mrs. William Howard Taft, whose late husband as Chief Justice was, more than any other man, personally responsible for the new building, had placed a lead box containing ceramic photographs of the present court and of Chief Justice Taft...
Last week Elbridge Rand Herron reached Alexandria on his way home. Egypt has no mountain peaks, but there remain the pyramids. Herron motored out to Gizeh and scrambled up the huge blocks of the Great Pyramid with no trouble at all. Then he tried the smaller (477½ ft.) Second Pyramid whose apex still retains much of its original smooth alabaster sheathing. Hoisting himself confidently from one 4-ft. block to the next Alpinist Herron reached the top, stood up and waved to his friends. Then, somehow, he slipped. A sprawling black spider to the horrified eyes below, his body...
...block away is the residence of Henry...