Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last November, returned to the White House cured, bringing his fiancée Ethel du Pont. No sooner had they arrived than Fiancée Ethel came down with acute appendicitis. The Roosevelts, after telephoning her family in Wilmington, called a naval ambulance, shot her into Emergency Hospital a block from the White House where she was successfully operated on by Commander Morton Willcutts...
...does not have a 14½in. forearm. He does not have a 47-in. chest. He cannot pull six autos with his teeth. He cannot lift 250 Ib. above his head five or six times without straining. . . .I defy him to carry 500 Ib. five or six blocks or one block with or without straining. He cannot run ten miles in an hour and he cannot tow a boatload of hysterical women a distance of one mile against wind, wave and tide as he claimed...
With the huge Democratic majorities in Congress, all odds were that the President would get what he wanted. But with a big block of Democrats squirming uncomfortably on the fence, and the calibre of the leaders who openly opposed the bill, it became certain that there would be a good squabble in the House, a battle royal in the Senate before Franklin Roosevelt could have...
Many undergraduates have urgent reasons for wishing to do the normal, allotted work as quickly as possible. In their paths is thrown the stumbling block of the extra rule, without apparent regard for the most ordinary principles of justice. A flexible educational; program must consider the differing demands of various intellects, and eliminate rigid and ill-considered restrictions...
...three-quarter-mile toboggan slide led down into South St. Paul's Main Street where "Hook 'Em Cows" prepared to serve 15,000 quarts of stew cooked in a huge kettle outdoors. From the Ice Palace a four-block slide sluiced down Cedar Street. Parks and public rinks were crowded and daily parades of gaudy costumed carnivalists marched and countermarched to watch hockey games, dogsled races, ski jumping, snowshoeing. Inside the State Fair Hippodrome, Ralph Hachenbach of Chicago witj| his long-bladed racing skates sliced almost four seconds off the U. S. two-mile indoor record (time...