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Word: blockings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best lineman on the Brown eleven is Jay Fidler, a tackle. The center or the Bruin line has been strengthened by Sophomore stars. Lon Regise, center, has been one of the spark plugs of Brown defense, while Phil Teacher and Tile Margarita, guards, block down the field for Brown runners...

Author: By Burrage Warner, | Title: Brown Points For Victory | 11/13/1942 | See Source »

Gordy Lyle, the Crimson wingback whose last-second touchdown dash against Princeton gave Harvard its only 1942 victory, will play no more football for Dick Harlow. Lyle's injury, suffered while trying to block Michigan's fifth point-after-touchdown, was established yesterday as a left fracture and the fleet Senior is out for the season...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Harlowmen Lose Lyle For Rest of Campaign | 11/10/1942 | See Source »

...commander, surrounded by his staff (see cut); the fuzzy young faces and grizzled old faces of marines in foxholes; the bodies of Japs, looking menacing even in death, on the river banks. Though Guadalcanal was 6,000 miles away, it now seemed as close as the next block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Face to Face | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...Asked Congress for wartime power to suspend tariffs and any other laws which block the free and rapid movement of goods, persons or information into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Bullets, also Ballots | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

Next sensation broke in Paris. In 1909 Epstein was commissioned to carve a figure for Oscar Wilde's tomb. He purchased a 20-ton block of stone, spent nine months in London carving "a demon-angel, in full flight across the face of the world," transported the work to Paris. The French were even more shocked than the English. Says Author Black: "This simplified and symbolic statue was violently objected to because it possessed genitals." To the fury of Critic Remy de Gourmont, author of a famed biological theory of esthetics, puritanical Frenchmen covered the offending fact with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Epstein Epic | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

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