Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winthrop boxers annexed the House championship last night at the Block-house by winning its last three bouts of the evening and edging out Dunster, 16 to 14. Hollis won the freshman crown by outpointing Stoughton...
Several hundred shivering students cheered the smoke-eaters as they lofted ladders and spotlights to the top floor of Little Hall, smashed in the front door of the book store, and evacuated all resident students from the Massachusetts Avenue block...
...Bill Casey used his brake for the first time, and the sled ground to a stop, about a city block past the finish line. They made the descent three times more before they pinned down the 1949 four-man bobsled championship. Average time: 1:13.32. Average speed: 46.8 m.p.h. Afterwards, Benham's No. 3 man, Jim Atkinson, felt his face and grinned: "Boy, was that wind cold." Somebody remarked: "It's all over but the drinking." Said Driver Benham: "I haven't had a drink in a long time . . . you can't drink and drive...
...take ten days to build. They move on rollers out of a shed and along an assembly line. When completed, they are loaded onto a house mover's dolly and hauled to the building site (within a ten-mile radius). There the house is worked onto a concrete block foundation. The final plumbing and electrical connections can be made the same...
...made an estimated net profit of $164,000. Most of it went to Levy, who controls three-fourths of the closely held stock. This year Levy expects to boost Blum's gross to $5,000,000. Next year Blum's will move into a new, block-long, $1,360,000 store and factory cut up into small, friendly little salesrooms. Levy doesn't want to lose that corner-store atmosphere. "We want to keep it the kind of place," he says, "where nobody will be afraid to ask for jellybeans...