Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coincident with the added prestige which this tiny sect has earned, there is a tendency to utilize the name " Quaker " for commercial purposes. This tendency is stoutly opposed by the Quakers of Reading, Pa., who seek state action to curb...
...course was suddenly checked by an electric light pole. The accident was cause by a faulty stater-plug which released itself when the car was being pushed with the brakes off and started the car. It had reached a speed of 15 miles and was skimming along beside the curb before it crashed into the pole, smashing the fenders and tearing off the wheels and turning completely over. It was immediately righted by the large crowd of students that had gathered, and for a time there was considerable anxiety for the fate of the lost driver until he appeared...
...newspaper clippings carry the record of dividend transactions back to the year 1864. Mr. Martin's collection also included a complete set of the original stock exchange sheet of the Boston Stock Exchange from 1866 to 1919, unlisted stocks of the stock exchange from 1890 to 1913, Boston Curb from 1905 to 1919. New York stock exchange sheets from 1857 to 1918 and a large accumulation of annual reports of corporations and other pamphlet material relating to securities of a century or more...
...should be a question for the Reich to settle and not a subject of discussion with the French and Belgians. In the meantime the Hitler Guards openly condemned German capitulation in the Ruhr and their leader, Adolph Hitler, ordered "grand maneuvers." Dr. von Knilling seemed unable or unwilling to curb the temper of the Hitlerites, whose audacity knew no bounds. The Government Party became alarmed and the Ministerial Council elected Dr. von Kahr as Dictator...
...Gordon gin, ten oranges and some ice; mix; get a refined lady drunk and distress her mother; get drunk yourself; when you and the refined lady are thoroughly intoxicated get into the car and zigzag through the streets until you see a woman wheeling a baby carriage from one curb to the other; then step on the gas. The chances are the carriage will have a baby...