Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...urging the people to vote "Yes." Locals of the C.I.O. and A.F. of L. bade their members vote the same; so did the real-estate board, the Merchants Association and the Chamber of Commerce. A lawyer named John. Mc-Evers set up a campaign committee, soon had 9,000 block workers ringing doorbells all over town. Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Marling threw his weight in favor of more money for the public schools...
...least 200 freshmen will have no trouble getting accommodations for their dates on the Jubilee weekend this year. The Jubilee Committee yesterday reserved a block of 200 rooms at the Parker House...
Sure, the man who winds up in front of Winthrop when he's headed for Eliot may have a little trouble. He can't turn right so he has to turn left down Mill Street and go for two blocks until he comes to Plympton Street and then turn left and go two blocks until he hits Mount Auburn and then turn again and go a couple of blocks until Holyoke Street and then turn left again and go a block or so until he comes to South Street and then turn right and go straight ahead until he gets...
...chilly scrutiny of the Oakland Council of Churches, they started holding revivals and set up three schools-the Academy of Christian Education, Patten College and Patten Seminary. Students joined up at the rate of 300 a year, paying $20 a month tuition, slipping on bright school sweaters with big block Ps, and learning the school yells. Sample, adopted from the old "Give 'em the ax": "Give 'em the Word, the Word, the Word." Some paid $5 for the academy's first and only yearbook, The Portal, a tome which explained Brother Tom's role...
...compete on equal terms in the world oil market. But Texas' Senator Tom Connally last week decided the time had come to get tough. With his Foreign Relations Committee holding a whip hand over ECA's new $2.9 billion appropriation, Connally announced that he would seek to block all further aid to Britain unless it abandons its "discrimination" against...