Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physicists. A chief item was that after laymen have learned to regard protons, electrons and other charged particles as nothing but electricity, the physicists adduce the neutron which has no charge and therefore cannot exist-although a stream of neutrons will knock the living daylights out of a block of paraffin. With equal politeness Professor Andrade replied, declaring in effect that it was really not the physicists' fault if atoms behaved in a way not explainable "in anthropomorphic terms of likes and dislikes," that physicists were not trying to be confusing but to obtain the best possible description...
Just at the corner of Nanking Road, not one block from the Wing On department store, accidentally demolished by Chinese air bombs last August, the inevitable grenade was thrown. "I saw a figure across the street throw something," John McPhee, Scottish inspector of Shanghai police, related afterward. "I watched a blur coming toward me. The object hit the ground and rolled between my feet. I pushed a Japanese civilian away and turned around just as the object exploded. A piece of shrapnel cut through my coat and hit my police card. I'm pretty lucky. I thought...
...victorious Japanese commander in chief at Shanghai, long-eared General Iwane Matsui, visited the scene of the bombing, and there under the dim glow of street lights promised the Settlement police commissioner, British Major F. W. Gerrard, to withdraw at once all Japanese forces from the 30 square block area, leave further investigation of the bomb outrage to the Shanghai Municipality...
Australian Angle. Dispatches from Australia pictured this spunky Dominion as aroused last week lest the United Kingdom have any sneaking thought of slaking Germany's land hunger by giving the Nazis a slice of New Guinea held under mandate by Australia. To block this the Dominion's famed and fiery Wartime Prime Minister William Morris Hughes, who at the Versailles Peace Conference was among those chiefly instrumental in having Imperial Germany despoiled of her colonies, has now at the age of 73 been made Australian Minister for External Affairs. Cocked & primed this week was oldster Hughes, ready...
...institutions than the London Times. But last week the Times moved. Funereal Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain punched a shiny newspaper press button, formally opened a spick & span Times printing annex which precedes the re-placement of the whole group of grim historic buildings around dingy Printing House Square, a block from the sluggish Thames in "the City...