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Word: blockings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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They moved to New Haven, where Bob now goes to the Yale School of Fine Arts. A little thing like a two-block walk tired Helen; Bob had to do most of the housekeeping in their two-room apartment, and he always carried her up stairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Happy Ending | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...Narciso, the lover, were also very fine. Marshall Heinbaugh, as Selim the Turk, was the only principal really beyond his element. It may have been the beard encircling his face, but every sound he made was so mufiled that the stage seemed three times further off than the one block it actually...

Author: By F. BRUCE Lewis, | Title: The Music Box | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

This week, the man who, in his years in the East Block, had made Canada a nation, was driven to Rideau Hall, residence of Governor-General Viscount Alexander of Tunis. There he handed in his resignation. Liberal Leader Louis St. Laurent was named to take his place. Then Mackenzie King rode home with his memories to the peace & sepulchral quiet of cavernous Laurier House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE PRIME MINISTRY: Last Exit | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...reported price of $3,500,000, paid to the William Waldorf Astor estate, the Shuberts also got famed "Shubert Alley," the narrow thoroughfare through the block, in which Lee Shubert's big Cadillac is usually parked. Unlike the Radio City deal, which promised a vast change in the landscape, this one promised little. The four theaters, built and owned by the Shuberts, are also operated by them. The Shuberts, who would have lost them when their lease expires in 1952, reportedly bought them because movie companies were eying the property. The deal strengthened their position as the biggest, oldest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boys from Syracuse | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Wingback Hal Moffle, who ran so yards for a touchdown on the first play from scrimmage, praised end Art Hyde for his great block of safety man Nadherny . . . "The play was just an ordinary sweep," Moffle explained, "and then all of a sudden everything opened up." . . . "I hope this is the start of a long friendship," Coach Valpey said to Hickman at the post-game press conference . . . "Well, I'm certainly doing my part," Hickman drawled...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: End of Seven Lean Seasons | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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