Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Filipinos] are like, let us say, a young married couple starting out in life. A mother-in-law is helping run their establishment. She may be a perfectly admirable woman, kind, generous, affectionate, wise and the best cook on earth, but the young household does not want her. . . . A block down the street, or across the river, the household thinks of her with profound affection and regard . . . but it does not want her forever stirring the pot and dominating the bill of fare...
...potential menace to the British Empire. On the open seas Britain was supreme. The Suez Canal meant a shortcut waterway from Gibraltar to the Gulf of Aden* requiring, if Britain was to control it, immensely involved politics. It meant that Britain, if she could not block the building of the Suez Canal, must at least partly own and control it and must by hook or crook dominate Egypt, then a vassal state of the Turkish Sultans. Last week in Egypt, key to the Suez Canal. Britain's historic policy of dominating the now officially styled "Independent Kingdom of Egypt...
...Cleveland, on his 60th wedding anniversary, William W. Britton, 78, recalled that before his marriage: "I used to pass Sarah's house every day on the railroad. She lived one block from the tracks and I could hop off the front of the freight train, sprint that block, snatch a kiss and then catch the rear end of the train. Used to do it all the time but I had to move fast. I met Sarah at a train wreck. I crawled out from underneath a pile of tank cars and saw her when she walked down to look...
...Dean--Mrs. Gauss thinks Tigers a cinch, but game has all the Marks of a Harvard win, and I Gauss Crimson will a Maser by garnering the Bliss of victory. Harlow will not Husband his strength, and if Crisler Wood win he will need more than one Sandbach to block the holes. Even if a Constable aPierson the Field, he will be a Marter in a losing cause. Tigers will Spring and try to Chew the White hopes from Cambridge, but Harvard's Nee will not bend. Scores, Harvard 14, Princeton 13; Yale 35, Brown...
From smoky, factory-ridden Steubenville, Ohio, 28 brightly scrubbed boys arrived in Manhattan last week, saw Rockefeller Center, the Aquarium, the Statue of Liberty, got lost in the subway, occasionally trotted around their hotel block for exercise and spent the rest of their time singing. The letters on their badges stood for Singing Boys of America. They regarded this week's Manhattan concert as their formal debut, the springboard from which they hoped to jump to national importance, really earn their name...