Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cross of the Legion of Honor and honorary citizenship in Paris. His benefactions have made him Dartmouth College's Grand Old Man. Since 1927 his masons have been rebuilding the western face of the Trophy of the Alps, with an interior stone stairway ending in a great stone block which pivots open to a fine view of the Mediterranean and the road to Monte Carlo. Such relics as his men dug up he installed in a museum on the spot. Last week he stood before Augustus' renovated Trophy and gave the keys ceremoniously to French officials...
...year, although the receipts have been lower since Depression and last year the croupiers and other attendants took a cut. Nevertheless, the Beach Club has been sufficiently profitable to permit Edward Riley Bradley, first citizen of Palm Beach and a devout Catholic, to build a magnificent church one block away. Its realistic donor was not displeased when the shrine was named St. Edward...
...women and two babies aboard, got back safely to Cape Wellen, Siberia. Since then the ice pack, twisted by Arctic currents, hammered by icebergs, has begun piling in on itself. It heaved the camp kitchen into splinters, erupted the surface of the improvised landing field. A loose block of ice nudged the pack's edge, smashed Professor Schmidt's motorboat. The hardy professor worked overtime in a gale to keep his precarious village functioning. Last week he was running a fever, saying nothing about it, when the weather cleared and Soviet rescue planes got through. They were flown...
newly washed with rain. We want litter cans on every block...
...name to the Seamen's Church Institute of New York, they labored to make it one of the best. Last week brought the Institute's 90th birthday. From his uptown Cathedral Bishop William Thomas Manning journeyed down to the waterfront. There in a chapel in the tall, block-long building which now houses the Institute, he pronounced his benison on its work. One shadow clouded the celebration. Last February died the "Seamen's Saint," Dr. Archibald Romaine Mansfield who for 38 years was connected with the Institute. A stalwart man of God, Dr. Mansfield spent his early...