Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second reason for Franklin Roosevelt's bad guessing, and the bad guessing of almost every straw poll, was that a big block of citizens who do not ordinarily vote turned out at this election. Instead of 31% or 32% of the population voting, as in the last two elections, some 36% voted last week. Most of these, millions of normally silent votes apparently went to the New Deal, with the result that Franklin Roosevelt piled up 60.4% of the popular vote. The extent of this upset was not evident even after the greater part of the ballots were counted...
...solid block of 300 French daily and weekly newspapers began last month pounding away at the so-called "New Deal Cabinet" of Socialist Premier Léon Blum. Over and over they hurled charges of which the most effective was the weekly Gringoire's incessant repetition that during the War the present Minister of the Interior, Roger Salengro, deserted from the front-line trenches and rode off into Germany on a bicycle...
...ruins of the Mayan city of Piedras Negras, an expedition headed by Dr. J. Alden Mason of Philadelphia's University Museum found a rectangular limestone carving in high relief which showed plainly that the unknown sculptor had a sense of humor, at least of satiric portraiture. The block, 49 in. long, was called a lintel, although its scanty margins indicated that it was used not over a doorway but as a wall tablet. Parts of the carving were effaced, but by squeezing every available clue Miss M. Louise Baker, experienced archeological artist, was able to make a wash-drawing...
...Fordham's "Seven Blocks" the most impressive are a Polish Block and an Italian Block. The Italian is 5-ft. 8-in., 200-lb. Edmund Franco, left tackle, whom Coach Crowley calls the best college lineman he has ever seen. The Pole is 5-ft. 11-in., 190-lb. Center Alexander Franklin Wojciechowicz (pronounced Woe-gee-hoe-wits), whose hobbies are cooking and helping his mother crochet rag rugs. Last week Fordham's Franco, Wojciechowicz & colleagues blocked so efficiently that Purdue's Isbell, Drake & colleagues gained only 54 yards rushing all afternoon, one-third as many...
...bath house still is round the block...