Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas governor, who seems assured of getting the great block of uninstructed delegates at the convention, leads Senator William E. Borah by more than 100 votes, polling 279 to the Idahoan's 167. Herbert Hoover is the third choice of Harvard, with 98 votes...
...ancient Persian playing card painted in bright colors on a thin block of wood, and a pack with Braille markings for use by the blind are among the interesting items in a collection of rare cards, which has been bequeathed to the University by the late Albert Thorndike '81 of Boston...
...against $3,729,000 in 1934. This profit did not include the first nine months' earnings of Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc., which would have added $691,000 to Inland's total. The Ryerson company was acquired last September. Inland, ably managed by Chicago's Block family, has rivaled National as a good earner in bad times...
...eliminating jallopies was prompted by General Motors' Richard H. Grant and approved by the industry's trade body. Dealers were rewarded for each jallopy junked. Difficulty was to prove that a car really had been junked. The rules provided that radiators be crushed, carburetors smashed, engine block cracked, transmission ruined, grease plug driven into the rear housing, etc. Nevertheless, chiseling was rampant, since a wreck was worth only $3 as junk while a reasonably complete car brought $12. Moreover, junk dealers often managed to salvage something which could be sold in competition with new factory parts...
...open letter to the Crimson from Elliott C. Cutler, '09, president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, welcomes undergraduates to participation in the Tercentenary Celebration, and shows specifically what they may do to help it along. But the main stumbling block, which is the date of the affair before the reopening of college, still remains to be solved...