Word: halt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endure for some time yet, because of its tremendous base of easy funds. Time money, it is true, has hardened up somewhat; but the disparity between long term investments and short term loans in yield is still too great for the "creeping bull market" on the Stock Exchange to halt sharply as yet. Moreover, industrial recovery, while genuine, is nevertheless slow because of surplus productive facilities. In 1922-23 and again in 1923-24, the business cycle was an annual affair, and quickly completed. But the cycle dating from last August in its secondary phase is very evidently an affair...
...trade, although in some quarters it is apparent that merchants have not stocked their shelves heavily. The Manhattan stock market, last week, encountered its first important reaction, so long expected. The slump in prices proved only temporary, however, particularly in the good rails, and failed to indicate any real halt to the rising market...
Proceedings in the French speaking contest for the medal offered annually by the Comite France-Amerique of Paris, were called to a sudden halt last night in Sever Hall when an over-energetic janitor followed out his duties to the letter of the law, and turned out the lights and locked up a 9 o'clock sharp, without looking to see if the building was empty...
Patrolman Patrick Powers, of Madison, Wis., found a man on his back porch at midnight. The man ran; Patrolman Powers cried, "Halt!", took a shot in the dark, killed Peter M. Posepny, Wisconsin University undergraduate. A jury acquitted Patrolman Powers of murder. Thereupon, the Daily Cardinal, Wisconsin undergraduate paper, published an editorial allegedly written by one Wesley Dunlap, of Salt Lake City. "We should like to see the police force tremble in its boots at the approach of a student. We should like to see terror thrown into their hearts when the word 'student' is mentioned...
Revolt. Two platoons of the Eleventh Sudanese Regiment at Khartum in the Sudan mutinied, started to march to Gordon College. Near the Egyptian military hospital in the Khedivial Avenue they bumped into two platoons of a British Egyptian regiment; both came to a halt. The British officer went forward, exhorted the Sudanese to obey orders, but the Sudanese refused. At this moment the acting Sirdar, Colonel Huddleston, rode up and went forward in front of the British troops to urge sanity on the Sudanese. But the Sudanese merely declined to recognize the Sirdar. Orders were then given to round...