Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Langdell scholarships to Joseph D. Block, of Marinette, Wisconsin, candidate for LL.B. University of Wisconsin '41; and Arthur LeR. Ellsworth, of Norman, Okla, candidate for LL.B. University of Oklahoma...
...reddened, shouted: "You promised me ... a chance to answer." Snapped Miller: "I did not." Then Fly rushed out to the street, paced up & down the block, cracking his knuckles in anger. To reporters, whom he has distrusted ever since he was TVA's general counsel, he roared: "Leave me alone!" Next day he issued a sharp statement in reply. He said the N.A.B. management was like a remark by John Randolph of Virginia: "It reminds me of a dead mackerel in the moonlight, it both shines and stinks...
Peace with China would be nice for Japan, leaving it free to push southward. But peace in Europe, leaving the U.S. and Britain free to block that push, is the last thing that Japan wants...
First stumbling block for Boston's 180 grade-school economics teachers was the lack of texts. Joe Lee wanted a subjective course revolving around the pupil's personal place in the world of money, not an objective course of simplified jargon and theory. In charge of the project was small, mild Eleanore Elizabeth Hubbard, professor of history at Boston Teachers College, a grade-school teacher herself for 26 years. Miss Hubbard solved the problem by holding weekly conferences with teachers, exchanging ideas for classroom models, graphs, cartoons, games...
Those terms say that studios cannot book an exhibitor with a year's supply of pictures in advance. They can sell him as many as five in a single block, no more. But all five have to be ready to show to the exhibitor before the sale. After seeing the block, he can refuse to accept it. This privilege also applies to pictures sold singly...