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Word: blockings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sternist prisoners at Jaffa made their own rules, ripped bars from the windows and tore down the steel doors connecting their cells. Guards, who feared that the prisoners might still have hidden arms, thoughtfully left their own guns outside before entering the cell block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Who's in Charge Here? | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...kept telling his all-too-tame Wildcats that they had to hate the guy across the line from them. Only a few days before, an eager freshman had driven a first-string tackle out of a play. When the big varsity man picked himself up, smiled and said, "Nice block," Coach Voigts got mad. "When the kid dumped you," he said, "you should have snarled." On Saturday against Minnesota, just when things looked blackest, the Wildcats began to snarl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Nine's Big Wheels | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...seven thick volumes on Lee and his generals know that Freeman is not a portrait painter who gets his effect with quick, inspired strokes; his method is careful and cumulative. His works are what book reviewers are apt to call monumental, and monumental they literally are: built block by patient block, soundly based, immense, monochromatic-and towering high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Virginians | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...CRIMSON learned last night from McBride's, a large Broadway ticket brokerage, that West Point ticket officials released a large block of seats in the East stands--the visiting college section--to them and to other New York agencies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missing Army Tickets Handled By Agencies | 10/14/1948 | See Source »

...outside sale of this block of seats--a triangular section running from the top half of the midfield section to a few rows of the last sections--had already provoked bitter complaints from students and alumni here. The manager of the Harvard Club of New York reported last night that many members had also tried in vain to procure tickets for the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missing Army Tickets Handled By Agencies | 10/14/1948 | See Source »

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