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Word: blockings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made an honorary member of the Royal Netherlands Choral Society, in honor of U.S. soldiers who made Maastricht the first Dutch town to be liberated during the war. He received a first-edition block of the 3? George Washington Carver memorial stamps from Postmaster General Donaldson. Kiwanis International President Charles Armstrong informed him that Kiwanis was against Communism, for the United Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Getting Ready | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Miss Li & Miss Liu. Loudspeaker trucks blared through the streets of Nanking and other large cities. Walls were pasted with purple and yellow posters proclaiming the virtues of candidates; across one a skeptic had scrawled "tsui niu" (bull-thrower). "Ward and block bosses," commented Nanking's Hsin Min Pao, "go to so many feasts they have stomachaches every day." But this time the Kuomintang made good its promise that seats guaranteed to minor parties should indeed go to minor parties. To teach party discipline on other matters, Kuomintang leaders cracked the whip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sweet & Sour | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

TEAMOPPONENT PLACE TIME Varsity Basketball Army Indoor Block 8:45 Varsity Hockey Army Arena 8:30 Varsity Track Army, Princeton West Point Varsity Wrestling Army West Point Varsity Swimming Navy Annapolis Varsity Squash Army West Point Varsity Rifle Vermont, Mass. Indoor Block Freshman Basketball Penn Charter Indoor Block 7:15 Freshman Hockey St. Paul's Concord, N.H. Freshman Track B.A.A. Games Gardon 3:00 Freshman Wrestling Exeter Indoor Block Freshman Squash Deerfield Deerfield Freshman Fencing Exeter Exeter Skling USEASA Slalom, North Adams Downhill, Combined

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schedule for Today's 14-Point Offensive | 2/7/1948 | See Source »

...Freshmen hit the heavy end of their mid-winter sports calendar today, as their wrestling and basketball teams take on tough opposition in the Block House, and their sextet ships off to Concord for a match with St. Paul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three '51 Squads Will Go into Action Today | 2/7/1948 | See Source »

Great Expectations. In Oklahoma City, Officer E. W. Lawson forgave a woman driver three traffic violations in one block when she explained that she had just discovered she was going to become a mother. In Louisville, Speeder Ernest L. Woods assured the judge that he was transporting an expectant mother, got fined $5 when she turned out to be a spitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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