Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connecticut Avenue in hot pursuit sped an automobile bearing agents of the U. S. Senate. Whr-r-r-o-r! Out of Connecticut Avenue whizzed an automobile bearing Washington police officers. Speed laws were ignored while pedestrians leaped for their lives. One- two-three, the automobiles screeched to a halt in front of the swank Shoreham Hotel. Their occupants piled out, raced up the steps. Prize of the chase was big black headlines for either Chairman O'Connor of the House Lobby Investigating Committee or Chairman Black of the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee, depending on which...
...combat in support of their respective principals, Virgin Islands Governor Paul M. Pearson, accused of maladministration, and Virgin Islands Judge T. Webber Wilson, accused of sabotaging Governor Pearson's administration. Hardly had the seconds exchanged a round of vituperation when the affair was brought abruptly to a halt (TIME. July 22). For each of the seconds had a second and he was Franklin Roosevelt. If Second-Second Roosevelt followed the ancient code he would merely stick a rapier into himself. Instead, last week, after the brawl was over, he announced the terms of an honorable settlement: Measure for Measure...
...metaphysics, and whatever approach thereto the individual may prefer. Most astronomers are agnostics. Not atheists- that presumes more conviction than religion does. Scientists cannot have faith. Ours is a perpetual inquiry; any acceptance of faith-in a scientific or a metaphysical or an esthetic sense-brings inquiry to a halt...
...thankless task of defending Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's extraordinary move of letting Premier Benito Mussolini know that His Majesty's Government would have been willing to cede some British territory to Ethiopia if that Empire could have been thus induced to make concessions to Il Duce sufficient to halt his prospective colonial war (TIME, July...
...warned Rebel Pribitchevitch. "The main condition imposed by Germany for co-operation would be Yugoslav acceptance of Austro-German union, which would make Germany our country's neighbor. Germany would obtain hegemony in Central Europe and the Balkans and only a crazy man could believe that Germany would halt at our border. She would continue her march to the Adriatic and Saloniki and Yugoslavia would become her vassal...