Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gothic type just as the more delicate outlined figures of the Italian cuts harmonize with the Roman letter of the text. The draughtsman was himself probably the woodcutter. In the sixteenth century, the greatest artists of the time as Durer and Holbein made designs to be cut in the block, and the cutting was done by the professional woodcutter of the day. A group of German books exhibited includes Durer's Small Passion and Apocalypse, the Luther Bible, with Hans Sebald Beham's woodcuts, and books with illustrations by Baldung, Burgkmair, and Wechtlin. There are some eight books illustrated...
...brightly painted Moorish ceilings, Bristol-board flagstones, marble columns painted on cerulean blue walls, and wrought-iron Venetian lamps, which decorate its lavishly gilded Italian interior. Russell Hall, happily but belatedly removed, has given way to a successor which calls to mind the stern lines of a frontier block-house. At least there is architectural variety...
...only for the crisis of 1932's Depression, but for every future crisis. Block-Aid is expected to function. Director Lloyd-Smith means it to become the permanent instrument of neighborliness. As the wheels began turning last week his committee explained its aims thus: "This great plan, Block-Aid, is designed to end misery in this city in the next few months. Important though that purpose is, the Block-Aid plan has a far more important purpose. Every block will set up an organization of leaders, the Block-Aiders, who will be able to deal with destitution whenever...
Claimant to the honor of having thought of the block-aid plan was not Wilton Lloyd-Smith, but an automobile accessory dealer of Buffalo, N. Y. named David Pasternak. To Colyumist Walter Winchell of the New York Daily Mirror Mr. Pasternak last month submitted proof that he had inaugurated the idea in November 1930. Buffalo's plan gives the head of one destitute family in each block $15 per week for removing snow, sweeping sidewalks, clipping lawns. Among the 40 other cities where Block-Aid is now in practice are Albany, Rochester, Syracuse, N. Y., Pittsfield, Mass., Cleveland...
...alleged understanding: Britain and France would be prepared to let Japan keep maximum war spoils in China if Japan would launch an attack upon Russia calculated at least to block the Five-Year Plan and possibly unseat the Communist Dictatorship...