Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tied up during the first two rounds by cagey Dowat, who tried to block effectively his opponent's battering right glove and to score hard with his own right, Rodgers burst into his usual whirlwind, if unorthodox, style in the beginning of the second cante...
...Easterns in New Haven when he ripped off a 51-second hundred and a 50-yard freestyle in well under 23 seconds. The six foot two-inch, 210-pounder is at present staying at Lowell with John Watkins, captain of the swimming team, and will train in the Block-house pool till he leaves for Ohio Saturday...
Whether "The Angel and the Badman" is the signal of a long awaited intellectual renaissance among western producers or whether it will he pigeon-holed as a noble experiment, the block long queues at the Paramount and Fenway are an accurate indication of public taste and appreciation...
When an airplane nears the end of a block, instruments will tell the pilot whether the next block is empty. If there is another plane ahead, he will circle around until the block is clear...
Follow the Track. A block system for the air's great open spaces will help aviation's most critical ill (congestion around busy airports, especially in thick weather) by spacing arriving planes. Two different methods are being tested to get them safely down out of the crowded air. One method: GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) watches the plane with radar while operators on the ground "talk" it down through the soup. The other: ILS (Instrument Landing System) guides the plane down a slanting radio beam...