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Word: halt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claim to be a better friend of the League of Nations than some of those who speak for it! The League today is mutilated, halt and maimed, and those who like me to do my best to build it up are serving it better than those who would attempt to put on it in its present state tasks which are manifestly beyond its strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: A Chamberlain Peace? | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...glittering new Pontiac smoothed to a halt a few feet from the Vagabond's not-glittering shoe-tips. Emblazoned all over its simonized flanks were painted signs proclaiming it a dual-control driver-training car. A. Mr. Yordan, from the Bureau for Street Traffic Reseach, stuck his head out from one of the driving sides--it didn't seem to matter which one--and invited the Vagabond to come for a ride to Newton High School where juvenile drivers were to be given the latest pointers on how to play wrinkle-fender. "Four boys," said Mr. Yordan, "and four girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...Sawyer's unsurprising solution was to enter the gubernatorial primary himself. Tree-Surgeon Davey, who once enjoyed a reputation as a champion of Labor, prejudiced it when he helped break the strike in Little Steel last summer, has since lost it altogether by calling out the militia to halt labor demonstrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Even Number | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...heavy scoring second period of four enemy goals brought the Yardling winning streak of ten straight victories to a halt yesterday afternoon when Rindge Tech defeated them 6-2 at the Arena...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Victory streak Is Ended by Rindge Tech 6-2 | 2/17/1938 | See Source »

...haphazard. The old and the young, the halt and the well, the first and the last were seated more or less at random by a large corps of Junior Ushers, even as the wind, blowing where it listeth, soweth the weeds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPACE FOR SPECTATORS | 1/4/1938 | See Source »

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