Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such reasoning is transparent, but it is not correct. Prominent educators and others do not mean merely individual votes. They represent a powerful and highly indignant block of votes. Even if the repeal bill is guillotined soon, the fight is not another lost cause. Proponents of repeal will talk language that politicians understand-about votes...
...expressed the bitterly callous attitude of our generation toward the evils that have been troubling mankind since the world began. It would have been a remarkable thing, nineteen years ago, to find college students making statements like this: "Since the coming war will otherwise deprive the most deserving block of its veterans of the Bonus by their sudden and complete demise, the Bonus must be paid now." The Princetonians who conceived this clever bit of humour are not to be censored. Youth must play: and deadly fatalism is quite as diverting as belligerent and shallow pacifism...
...shafts drove deeper. Astutely managed after George Hearst's death by his shrewd widow, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and after 1914 by her cousin's son, retiring Edward Hardy Clark, who is still president, Homestake was for years a pillar of the Hearst fortune. "W. R.'s" block, now estimated at 14,000 of the original 42,000 Hearst shares, is worth about $7,000,000, yields an annual income...
...safe driving. Installation of his apparatus in every driving test center in the country would simplify the problem of keeping incapable operators off the highways. As Dr. de Silva himself points out, the road tests now administered, usually consisting of a trip around one city block, are entirely inadequate, as no emergency is likely to arise. His experiments, on the other hand, endanger no one, as they are carried out in the safe confines of a laboratory. A system of point rating could easily be devised, so that prospective chauffeurs and truck drivers would find it difficult to obtain positions...
Breaking through two barricaded doors in commendable fashion, Colonel Apted found himself in the living room of the broadcasting suite. In front of him a member of the transmitting staff was assembling chairs as if to block his passage, while in the adjoining bedroom he caught a glimpse of the transmitting apparatus...