Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affirmative of the argument which finally forced Frederick deW. Bolman, Jr. '35, chairman of the Forum and chairman of the Debating Council, to call a halt to the hostilities, was taken by A. Gilman Sullivan '36, who maintained that abolition of censorship would "assure an avoidance of the decadence of the arts...
...Archbishop Ruiz sounded off from the safety of Texas last week than Archbishop Diaz's secretary in Mexico City announced with anguish: "The Primate has been arrested and I cannot find out where he is! A milkman who saw six men force the Archbishop's car to halt in a town known as El Arbolito has just told me the dreadful news...
Meat prices jumped on the first Drought scare last summer but housewives brought the rise to a quick halt in September by stubbornly refusing to buy. Now that the beef and hog shortage is really a market factor meat prices are again climbing. The supply of fresh butter has dwindled so rapidly that dealers are drawing from storage 1,000,000 Ib. daily to meet demand, and stocks on hand at the beginning of February were only 18,000,000 Ib. as against 76,000,000 Ib. at the same time last year. Retail prices have jumped from...
Leaf into Local. Tooting through the night, Grand Trunk-Canadian National Railways' proud International Limited (Montreal-Chicago) was brought to an unscheduled halt near Dundas, Ont. Ahead the engine's searchlight picked out a dark jumbled mass. Walking down the tracks trainmen heard moans, screams, shouts. Farther on they saw scattered Christmas presents, a blood-spattered doll with smashed legs, a fox terrier whimpering over a man's mangled body, another body without a head. Upended on the brink of a 150ft, cliff was a wooden railroad coach with screaming people inside. From the splintered debris...
Bryan might win in Tennessee but Fundamentalism grew progressively weaker and weaker, after the great "Monkey Trial." Presbyterian Fundamentalists tried in vain to halt a move to liberalize their Church's oldest, richest and most conservative theological seminary, at Princeton. Thereupon they abandoned Princeton, founded a seminary of their own which they called Westminster, after the great Confession of their faith. When the smoke of theological battle lifted and public interest had shifted to other quarters, there emerged a new Fundamentalist leader. Plump-cheeked Dr. John Gresham Machen, born 52 years ago in Baltimore, was not another Bryan...