Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Children love block printing. They love the tarry smell of the sticky ink. They love the rolling and the pressing. The cutting satisfies like whittling on the oldtime school desk...
...Cole believes that "children are wonderful," that a teacher's main job is to free them of fears and inhibitions, bring out their natural sense of rhythm and beauty. "Art," says she, "has been emasculated by adult flower arrangers." In teaching her pupils painting, platemaking, block printing, dancing, writing, Mrs. Cole urges them on with the same admonition: "Swing!" Other Coleisms...
About 1907-08 Henry Ford sold 2,000 six-cylinder Fords. I know for I bought one (see cut). The cylinders were cast separately (not in one block), it had planetary transmission, no starter (had to be cranked), no electric lights but acetylene, and for its day was one of the fastest cars on the market...
Recluse Wilhelm did well by his home town. He built its enormous Hollywood Theatre, its biggest business block after the fire of 1926. Throughout the depression he kept all his employes (800) in all his plants (8) on full pay. When he died, one of them called him "the most wonderful man that ever lived...
...Larminat moved into French territory from his refuge in the Belgian Congo after his agents had arrested the Military Governor at Brazzaville. Appointed by General de Gaulle Commander of the French Equatorial African Land, Sea and Air Forces, he can threaten Italian Libya across her undefended southern frontier, perhaps block Axis plans for a backdoor entrance into central Africa...