Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan ran into a new stumbling block: after a year of listening to arguments, the Illinois Commerce Commission rejected the plan as financially "unsound" and containing insufficient guarantee of improved service...
...England states rank high on Dr. Thorndike's list. So does a block of five Western states-Idaho, Colorado, North and South Dakota, Wyoming (and Utah). But the ten states that are lowest are all Southern...
...mildly stating that "... both the time and the tone [of his statements] were ill chosen." Instead of pleading with the U.S., Great Britain and the Soviet Union to re-establish a Poland, Sikorski goes ahead and formulates plans for a miniature cordon sanitaire composed of small eastern countries to block off Russia, and even entertains hopes of acquiring Czecho-Slovakian territory...
...class standings. Those in the lower third of the disbursing class, with a breath of relief, recognized the extra two weeks as a period of grace in which to raise averages; whereas, the top third was dismayed over the increased possibility of slipping. The main objection of the center block was that of the students as a group: THAT DAY of getting out into the field and putting our larnin' to work has been set ahead that much farther. But the sincere desire to know the job and be well-equipped on taking a billet has overcome the first disappointment...
...Fires and the Death. By this time our planes were coming in one after the other, hitting targets all over the city. There were big scattered clouds of smoke and flame, some terrific block-long fires. One of the boys said he got an aircraft carrier in construction, that it rolled over right on the ways. Other planes were hitting Kobe, Yokohama and Osaka. They had orders not to bomb the Emperor's palace. Afterwards, from intelligence reports, we heard that more people were killed because of suffocation and inadequate dugouts than by flame or bombs...