Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around the hotel, prevented anyone from entering or leaving. They trained two field guns on the entrances of the building, set up sentry posts and cots in the lee of the nearby Ford plant. Thus checkmated, matters rested. Cubans used to living on volcanos' edges made a 16-block detour and went on about their business...
...Varsity in yesterday's workout gave the impression that it is not lacking in power but that it is slow to start, slow to block and slow to take advantage of an opening. No fair estimate can be made of the backfields used because of frequent substitutions on the Jayvees but it looked as though the sophomores had the edge. Only a light workout is scheduled for tomorrow...
...from Chicago to Jersey City. All of its eight cars were of heavy steel except the third from the rear, an oldfashioned wooden coach full of Binghamton commuters and Erie workers going home to Susquehanna, Pa. Near the Binghamton city line No. 8 was stopped by a red block signal while just ahead a freight backed into a siding to clear the main line. No. 8's flagman sprinted back with red lantern and track torpedoes. Several minutes behind No. 8 out of Binghamton was a fast milk train (No. 2). At the throttle was Engineer Martin ("Biddy") King...
Chief stumbling-block so far has been Medicine's failure to transmit encephalitis among experimental monkeys, rabbits and guinea-pigs. Last week Superintendent William George Patton of the St. Louis County Hospital cautiously suggested that man alone may be susceptible to epidemic encephalitis. In Baton Rouge, La., Herbert Brown, tuberculous ex-soldier, promptly offered himself as a human subject. Said he: "I cannot hope to be an old man. I cannot work and would like to do something useful for the world before...
...wearing the ceremonial full dress prescribed by Captain Goring who delights to set fashions and even designed his own uniform as German Air Minister. Thus far the butchers have scorned to wear masks. Assistants bind the condemned man, shave his neck and hold him down squarely against the block. A state's attorney reads the verdict of Death, cries. "Executioner do your duty!" Not bad fellows, several butchers have treated the condemned to hearty meals at their own expense the night before execution, supplying the meat from their own butcher shops. Counting these and the Berlin executions, 31 heads...