Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upside-Down Paintings. Vienna-born Ned Ohrbach, an immigrant's son, started as a clerk, worked up to buyer for Ehrich Bros, department store. He founded Ohrbach's in 1923, a block from Manhattan's famed, price-cutting S. Klein...
Beginners truly start from the ground up. Footwork is first, Lamar explained. Then he teaches a single blow, the block for that blow, and the counter-punch. Garbed in a black-wool outfit that looks like a cross between Dr. Dentines and Gay Nineties bathing togs, he stands on a podium at one end of the room and drawls instructions to the class. He then demonstrates each blow and its ramifications, and lets the boys try it out on one another...
...Advertising Committee of the Harvard Square Business Men's Association, announced last night that a program to encourage merchants to modernize their store-fronts is now in operation. The first firm to complete alterations under the plan is Schoenhof's book store, and work on other shops in the block is in progress. The remodeling campaign will extend down Boylston st. in the near future...
...shake a cliche at the winter sports squads get going in earnest. The varsity squash team starts things off this afternoon when it meet the Harvard Club of Boston, and tomorrow night, the varsity and freshman basketball teams both open their home seasons against Northeastern at the Block-house, and the hockey team goes after Brown bear at the Arena...
...widely-publicized Hyde block on Moille's touchdown run, well it wasn't true. The only spectacular one that this observer noted was thrown by Will Davis, who personally disposed of four defenders in the course of the play. This Davis, by the way, turned in as fine an afternoon of football as anybody...