Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until now the chief stumbling block, Great Britain has decided that her present method of safe-guarding Middle Eastern oil is too costly. She is prepared to discard her mandate if the UN or some other group assumes the burdens of immigration and partition. Belligerently sprawled across the last lap is the Arab League, spewing forth a strange variety of threats, the largest of which is a warning that all Arab economic and cultural ties with the West will be severed at the outset of partition. This threat rings hollow because the financial and industrial concessions granted by the West...
...avoid sitting next to a Negro in a classroom, Texans are willing to spend $3,500,000. That fact was proved and priced last week, when Texas opened the doors of a new state university on the outskirts of Houston. The Texas State University for Negroes occupies a block-long modernistic limestone building, still under construction. More than 2,000 students are enrolled, but the man who was responsible for the whole thing is not among them...
...biggest difficulty is trying to forget that he is a shortstop. Fielding ground balls, he scoops them up as if he had a quick throw to make. And because he does not crouch down to block the ball, a lot of grounders dribble between his legs. He also can't seem to break his habit of catching put-out throws two-handed. The Cardinals' Stan Musial, for example, gets a far longer reach by taking throws singlehanded...
Among the business opportunities advertised in the New York Times was a tempting come-on. On the block was a manufacturing business which was "absolute leader in its field. . . . Present production volume largest in history. . . . Because the well-to-do owners are obliged to put their affairs in more liquid condition they will accept a fraction of the real value of the business...
Lack of proper child guidance is Morris' chief complaint against the present system. His platform calls for a complete achievement record to be kept on each individual pupil, so that a precocious block builder would possibly be steered into the construction trades as a high school youth...