Word: halt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having recovered from her recent illness, which forced her to halt her performance at the Wilbur Theatre for the past week, Miss Ethel Barrymore this evening resumes her role as Sister Gracia in "The Kingdom of God." Following her Boston engagement, Miss Barrymore will go to New York, where the play will have its premiere on December 20 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre...
Plans were made to interpolate in the Hoover itinerary after Lima a call on landlocked Bolivia. The Maryland was to halt off Antofagasta (Chile) and receive Bolivan officials on board. Chile, shocked and shaken by an earthquake (see p. 19) awaited with double eagerness the arrival of the famed U.S. disaster-doctor...
...Harvard captain, took charge of Harvard football destinies as coach, and it was this year that ushered in a new football era. A defeat came the next year., and two scoreless ties followed before the great Haughton system got fairly started on its conquering march that lasted with one halt...
...They breakfasted at Needham, having performed a march of nine miles in three hours, including a halt of twenty minutes. About ten o'clock, they again halted at Richard's for twenty minutes; and reached the termination of the Worcester turnpike about half past eleven, where they were received by the Norfolk Guards and escorted to the high ground opposite the residence of General H. A. S. Dearborn, where they encamped, and which gave them a full view of Boston...
...preceding session the latent power of the first team's running and passing attack. The scrubs were powerless to stop the hard running first team backs, and the latter had rolled up a 73 to 0 score before the approaching evening forced Coach Horween to call a halt in the session...