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Word: blockings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fighting Trim. In Honolulu, lightweight Boxer Richie Shinn weighed in, found himself over the 133-lb. limit, removed his upper plate, ran around the block, came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 12, 1946 | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

When night fell rifles passed through the hands of muttering veterans rallying in front of G.I. election headquarters. A block away a movie marquee blazed its attraction: Gunning for Vengeance. Shadowy figures soon lurked along the ivy-covered ridge overlooking the two-story brick jail. A pale yellow light gleamed through the jail's tall front windows; the deputies were inside. Outside, the street was solidly lined with deputies' cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Battle of the Ballots | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...impressive performances like these, George Zook gets a salary of $18,000 a year-more than a Cabinet member's. The offices of the million-dollar American Council, a block away from the White House, reflect Zook's own prosperous but conservative air. A.C.E.'s main output: solid studies about everything in education from A to Zook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: From A to Zook | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...American Veterans Committee, whose office is next to the nursery in Phillips Brooks House, happily removed the large sign outside their door. It seems that two prospective members, ex-Navy fliers, had come up to the second floor to join but had become so interested in the block construction of an aircraft carrier by a boy of four that they had forgotten all about joining the A.V.C...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enlargement Planned For Nursery Program | 8/2/1946 | See Source »

...kept aloof from her customers, her employes and the press. She lived for the store, building it from the small, five-floor institution she inherited in 1905 into today's 17-story, half-block-long edifice. In the process, she parlayed the $3,500,000 fortune left her by her first husband into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of a Legend | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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