Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more flexible, thus less likely to break; and also keeps them from soaking; up water thus preventing warping. When skis are out of use for any considerable length of time they should be kept in a press. This consists of clamps at each end, holding the skis together a block in the middle which keeps the how in shape and a piece of wood or metal fastened to the points, pushing them apart...
...seen the last of that thing 25 years ago!" Most unique publishing difficulty under gone by the fledgling News-Herald lay in the fact that while its editorial, business, advertising and circulation departments worked on boxes and kitchen tables in one building, its composing room was a block away and its faithful rheumatic old press and mailing room were three miles outside the city. Founding News-Herald staff members carried copy & picture by automobile, concentrated on keeping expenses down, took stock in the enterprise to compensate for top salaries of $18.50 a week...
...crystallized by Lankenau's Chemist Gerrit Toennies. For the next 24 to 36 hours Miss Medes remains alone and foodless in her laboratory taking samples of her blood every half-hour, other fluids whenever possible. The week-long experiment over, she then goes to her boarding house, a block away from her laboratory, to recover from starvation with a three-day diet of fruit juices, cereals ("except rice"), eggs. On the fourth day she has "a big juicy steak" and a romp with her only Philadelphia companion, a wire-haired terrier named Whiskers, from whose loin Miss Medes...
...collateral pledged by the Van Sweringens for defaulted loans from a J. P. Morgan & Co. banking group, setting up a concern called Midamerica Corp. as a new super-holding company for the Van Sweringens. What the Brothers Van Sweringen got was a 10-year option on a controlling block of Midamerica common stock, together with the right to vote it in the meantime...
Eliot House news-gobblers have been dragging their poor dining-room paper-vendor for a block of brick smokehouses during the last few weeks...