Word: halt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last January, the Ku Klux Klan, which had obtained a foothold in that region, began a series of prohibition raids that almost brought on more riots. Glenn Young, the Klan leader, walked the strets with two guns openly strapped at his waist. Troops were called in to halt violence. Young was arrested a month later; when the troops had been withdrawn, a brush occurred in which one man was killed and several were wounded. Again troops, again court proceedings; then city elections, charges and counter charges, arrests and trials...
Industry and trade are in the doldrums, which is partly due to seasonal causes, and partly to more serious factors. Steel and iron, motors and textiles seem distinctly stale. The oil industry seems unable to halt overproduction. Landlords are beginning to wonder whether enough tenants are going to "come back from the shore" this Fall to occupy all the available shops, houses and apartments. Merchants are keeping their stocks down and their hopes up. Enthusiasm, curiously enough, seems confined to agriculture and finance. For once, the wheat farmers and Wall Street are on the same side of the fence...
...substitute for a considerable quantity of blood. A balanced amount of this is contained in the tube of the artificial kidney so that the blood, entering, pushes the solution ahead of it into the vein at the receiving end. 2) How is the blood to be cleansed without any halt in its passage through the tube? By the substance of the tube itself, which is made of a porous material called celloidin. This is permeable to certain solids, among them mineral poisons, which it absorbs as the blood flows through ("Dializing out" is the stock laboratory idiom for this method...
...Obregon, Mexican President: "Near Tepic, State of Nayarit, I narrowly escaped death, when several cars of a train in which I was traveling became uncoupled from the engine on a steep grade. Carrying me, the cars dashed madly down the incline for several hundred yards, eventually came to a halt...
...time to call a halt upon indiscriminate scandalmongering, which is largely designed to insult the intelligence and undermine the patriotism of the American people. But let us not be misunderstood. This is no reflection upon any investigator who in good faith is seeking to expose crime or any other defection among public servants. The guilty individual, whether he be high or low, Democrat or Republican, must suffer the severest punishment. Upon this proposition the Republican Party stands firm as a rock. Yet let it be known that guilt knows no party...