Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ducked into the Democratic cloakroom. Then he reappeared in the rear of the Chamber, sucking on a cigar, and shook hands with Tennessee's old spoilsman, Kenneth McKellar. The arena was noisy with confusion. On the rostrum Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle banged the little ivory block on the desk of the presiding officer and convened the Senate of the 80th Congress...
...open gates are also proving a boom to night-prowling Yard residents who no longer need to trains as far as three block along Massachusetts Avenue to return to their beds after finding the entrances through Wiggleworth Hall tightly locked...
...suceessful as had been the past, the future looked more promising. Gathered with Professor Aiken in the conference Grace M. Hopper, Richard Block, Robert Campbell, and Joseph Harrison, all research associates, discussed the possibilities of large scale computation in the various fields of applied sciences. Though their interest vary in regard to the application of automatic computing, they are united in their interest in the machines themselves "Faster and more accurate machines and more of them. "is the immediate goal. according to Professor Aiken. If his first ten years in the business are any indication another deesde should find...
Probably of some economic significance is the fact that more than 90 percent of undergraduates have a radio in their room, and 64 percent of them listen to it everyday in the week. Almost half of this block of faithful listeners spend their time with WHCN...
Before Perry opened Japan to the West, the average Jap was a connoisseur who bought the best colored block prints for a few pennies each, as Americans of the day bought Currier & Ives. Ukiyoye, like the Currier & Ives, were mostly genre scenes and tourist views, but the similarity ended there. Glowed the New York Sun's scholarly art critic Henry McBride, after seeing the Met's collection: "It is difficult to think of any other people in any other age who maintained so high a standard in 'popular...