Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...determined that on October 8, 1636, the General Court of Massachusetts met and considered things of vast moment. As the day progressed, they awarded five pounds to George Munnerys to compensate for the loss of his eye on a voyage to Block Island. They decreed that no lace be worn and stipulated the penalties for a Breach of this order. After taking care of several matters that are generally handled by police courts at the present time, they apparently had an afterthought. As the last act of the day before closing up the court and going home, the court voted...
...center of the city. The jungle life of these catacombs demanded such a toll of blood, so many corpses were thrown naked upon the outer snow, that the authorities have put a high wooden fence around the entire area and plan next year to raze this whole city block. . . . Suddenly there materializes beside you a group of children, seven, ten, and twelve years old. They have gnomelike, filthy faces, childish eyes, shaggy hair, men's long coats, trousers pinned up or cut and ragged. They shuffle together, taking counsel, then swift as swallows make one after another a leap...
...been given him merely because of their hope that they themselves might gain control of the regulatory machinery which was being erected--such as the NRA--and thus set up a rigid oligarchy in which the government would be subordinated to business men. Failing to do this, they must block Mr. Roosevelt; and the present attack on him, for which the cancelling of the air-mail contracts has provided the excuse, is only one phase in the struggle. That this is a conscious attempt of the capitalist class to form a plot against Roosevelt I do not claim...
...week, and I put forth this suggestion as a guess in the dark. It would seem, however, that in case strong support from the powers does not materialize, that Dolifuss would naturally seize this opportunity and choose to sacrifice his principles rather than his head on the Nazi chopping block...
...seat of Jefferson County is Louisville (pop. 1,650) which was the capital of Georgia from 1795 to 1805. In the centre of the town's old-fashioned Common still stands the roofed block on which until 70 years ago slaves were sold at auction. Above the block hangs the bell that summoned buyers and sellers of black flesh from the surrounding countryside. Last week, for the first time in years, proud little Louisville (pronounced Lewisville) found itself in the bright beam of national news...