Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michigan's kick-blocking ends and Halfback Herman Everhardus' toe again helped to keep Michigan on the Humpty Dumpty wall. Everhardus booted a field goal against Iowa, kicked the extra point after Bill Renner had forward-passed to a touchdown. Left End Ted Petoskey crashed through to block the kick-for-point after Iowa's touchdown...
...political importance. Mr. Roosevelt, whose whole program is an infelicitous falling between the stools of Marx and Mill, has already had occasion to discover that the capitalists will not brook serious interference in the other parts of their program. Surely they will not suffer him, or his successors, to block them in a path so clear and vital as this. POLLUX...
...Lowell flayed block-booking of films as an exhibitor's excuse for showing objectionable pictures. Rebutting Dr. Lowell from New York, Secretary Carl Elias Milliken of the Hays organization observed: "Several years ago a cancellation clause was inserted in block-booking contracts permitting exhibitors to reject up to 10% of the films contracted for. . . . The managers used this clause to reject the so-called highbrow pictures...
...could drum up enough orders for rails to tempt the four steel companies into shading their price from $40 a ton (TIME, Oct. 16). Efficient Mr. Eastman promptly came through with orders for 844,000 tons. U. S. Steel's Taylor, Bethlehem's Grace, Inland's Block and Colorado Fuel & Iron's Roeder, the only railmakers in the U. S., agreed to submit strictly independent bids. Rail rolling, however, is no cut-throat business. For eleven years the price never varied a cent from $43 a ton. Last year it was downed $3. No responsible steelman...
...yard line and drove through to a first down. A quick kick sent the pigskin out of bounds on the Varsity 35. From there Pesky carried it to midfield, and then he and Art Barrett drove, through for five more yards. On the next play aided by a beautiful block by Will Burton, Barrett broke loose for a touchdown...