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Word: blockings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plump, pink Lord Hyndley (rhymes with kindly), who will run the mines as National Coal Board Chairman. Afterward Lord Hyndley, 63, would climb to the roof of his Berkeley Square office building and hoist the Coal Board's new flag (royal blue with "NCB" in white block letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Vesting Day | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...blocks north of U.N. and one block from the constant rumble of First Avenue trucks is Manhattan's swank, placid Beekman Place, rimming a bluff over the East River, with a view from Brooklyn to The Bronx. John D. Rockefeller III has an apartment at No. 1. A block away lives Columnist-Entrepreneur Billy Rose, with his wife, Eleanor Holm, Actress Katherine Cornell lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: First Avenue, New York | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...only ten minutes' notice, Prime Minister Mackenzie King called a press conference one evening last week. As a dozen newsmen hustled over to the East Block, they found the P.M. waiting for them with some long-expected news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Musical Chairs | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Stressing that their meeting was in no way to be construed a measure to organize a solid voting block to dominate the three-day conference, the delegates, representing 16 colleges and youth organizations and including the four Harvard nominees, characterized their caucus as an effort to clarify the issues involved and lay down some concrete suggestions for action at Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 25 Delegates Make Plans in Meeting Here | 12/21/1946 | See Source »

...form directly behind one of the baskets or in small groups mixed in with the rafters and lighting fixtures. If Harvard athletics is to gain local support without incurring the wrath of its best fans, some plan akin to the cheering-section arrangement should be worked out. A single block of seats, located along the side of the court and stretching from the floor to the upper sections would satisfy both spectators and Garden officials. The present scale of prices could be continued and students could enjoy a Harvard basketball game minus a few of the inconveniences of big-league...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Garden Gander | 12/17/1946 | See Source »

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