Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approach of cold weather and accompanying snow is expected to be the latest date at which the campaign against overnight parking will begin. Cars parked in the streets will be promptly towed away, since they constitute a block to snow-removal forces...
...will be reduced. In 1929, such a reduction led the University to solicit a tremendous amount of "gifts for immediate use." These gifts which hopped from about one million dollars in 1926 to seven million in 1929, tugged Harvard safely through the crash. They were not, however, sufficient to block an average twenty-five percent tuition rise throughout the University...
...opening shot in Labor's campaign to clip the wings of the House of Lords. As Prime Minister Attlee explained to the House of Commons later, the 1911 act prevented the Lords from holding up "money bills" introduced in the House of Commons, but the Lords could still block any other legislation for a period of two years. Labor wanted the delaying power cut to one year. Attlee's main interest in the matter was to insure clear passage of Labor's forthcoming bill to nationalize iron and steel. From the Tory benches came a growl...
...Yost's old-time Michigan teams as modern design can make them. There are no roughcast iron men on Michigan's 1947 squad. It is a collection of chrome-plated, hand-tooled specialists. Some never get a chance to make a tackle, others never throw a block. Usually none stays in a game long enough to work up as much sweat as the radio announcer, who tries to keep track of them as they trot...
...Darrow began to give sick babies potassium injections, found that the treatment reduced deaths to "a very low figure." Reporting his improved treatment last week to medicos in Albany, N.Y., the doctor cautioned that too rapid injections may cause heart block. At the University of Texas School of Medicine, nurses who have given the Darrow treatment reported "miraculous" results...