Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Dario "Block That Kick" Berizzi, Charlie Hutter, Lothrop Forbush, and Russ Greenhood back from cheorleading and Sophomore Jim Curwen returned to the fold from crow, just about all of last year's Varsity and Freshmen performers are again under Coach Ulen's supervision...
...stairway via Rout 1, the student takes 17 full seconds. But, employing the illegal Routue 2, he does it in 10 flat. Seven seconds, then, are wasted because of the grass plot, an architectural Frankenstein! And even if the illicit route is taken, a hedge and a tree block speedy entrance to class...
...effective Nov. 1, thus carrying stocks through their steadiest week in two months (see p. 59). By week's end, Washington was seriously considering the possibility that Congress must soon revise and modify the capital gains tax and the undistributed profits tax, which Business bemoans as a stumbling block to recovery...
...youngster (Alexander Kirkland) gives up sweetheart and golf clubs when off-stage voices, quoting scripture, call him to the Church's service. Through 14 subsequent scenes, stern dominies keep this young, progressive zealot from his project of awakening the Church to "the demands of a changing world." They block his plan for a Church dance, they prevent his sheltering a pursued harlot, just as he has concluded that the Church is not all that it should be, his disapproving seniors unfrock him. He is glad...
...Great Sphinx of Egypt. He might get a peep of personality out of the Great Silent One, provided he could give it a monocle and scarlet Mephistophelian lips. At the age of 13, quite by accident. Bergen had already made his voice seem to come from halfway down the block from where he stood...