Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artillery could get into position to block the Whangpoo at Woosung, Shanghai would be cut off from the major source of its food, the only source of its coal, fuel oil and raw materials for its factories. Only one question remained: Would the Reds unleash a knockout blow, or would they try to starve the city out? Shanghailanders, lying awake through the long nights, listened to the gunfire and the frenzied barking of frightened dogs in the streets, and waited wearily for the answer...
...chief stumbling block which the Sphinx Club faced was that a majority of the Council has serious doubts as to the merit of the club system, and, in particular, the merit of the final club as an institution at Harvard College. Some Council members who disliked the club system felt that they could not vote to give the Sphinx Club a charter because such a vote would constitute endorsement of the club system. These Council members also felt that the chartering of the new final club might lead to a flood of charter applications for more new final clubs...
...Harvard Radio Network occupied its present quarters downstairs in Dudley Hall back in 1775, it would have been submerged in a small pond. This pond filled the hollow behind the stores on Massachusetts Avenue and covered the entire block down to Mount Auburn Street. According to the new Pitman Studio minature diarama of Harvard during the Revolution, which will soon be on display across from the 1936 model in the entrance to Widener Library, the region around Harvard Square had many similar ponds and creeks. Such fine attention to physiographic and architectural details in this reproduction has given the University...
...program includes Vivaldi's Sonata in D Major, the Sonata in D Minor by Brahms, and works by Block, Lalo, Ravel, and Veracini...
...Trade Block...