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Word: blockings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for McNicol's work, Harlow was not pleased and he termed the scrimmage "average." Downfield block-received a large share of the coaches' attention, but there is still a great deal more to be done in that department before the team's work downfield will be termed satisfactory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DON McNICOL BACK AS TEAM STEPS ON '45 | 10/8/1941 | See Source »

...plan for FM transmission for the intercollegiate chain is maturing rapidly. The Federal Communications Commission, main stumbling block in the road of aspiring networks, has given its approval and the chief obstacle remaining is the difficulty of obtaining radio equipment whose production has been drastically curtailed by Defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intercollegiate Radio Chain Maps FM Transmission Plans | 10/8/1941 | See Source »

They also blew up 2,000 bridges in the path of the advancing Blues. The blowing up was theoretical but accurate: umpires with formulas in their pockets inspected every foot of fuse, every block of TNT, allowed no bridge to be closed off to the Blues unless enough simulated TNT was planted, in just the right spots, to tear it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Battle of Shreveport | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...Adolf Hitler outmoded the U.S. plan. With tanks needed to block Hitler in the East as well as in the West, many an ordnance expert now says that the U.S. will have to aim at production of 30,000-35,000 tanks a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tanks, Please | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...featurettes like Tanks (which is merely a stretched-out episode), they may be weaned down to one standard-length feature and an extra-large helping of good, inexpensive shorts. Producer Roach is so hopeful about his new "streamlined features" that he has made five of them, has another block of five on the fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 6, 1941 | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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