Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calling for a halt to current unrest, confusion, and instability, and declaring the "need of a moratorium on strikes", Dean Donham told the ad men that "there is no chance of avoiding labor rackets and disorganization in face of sudden rapid growth resulting from government support. The labor movement is unready for the vast responsibilities thrust upon...
...James: It is obvious that the country which called a halt to scientific progress would soon fall behind in every other respect as well...
...boots. He was never a cowboy. He comes from Coalgate in Coal County, is the son of a missionary to the Indians and is famed for his peculiar behavior on the bench. When his raven-like eye spots a prominent onlooker in his court room, he is apt to halt proceedings, introduce the visitor, make him take a bow. He holds that every judge, before he takes office, should have at least five years experience as a poker player, to get an insight into human nature. Last autumn he wrote a letter to a newspaper declaring that he enjoyed seeing...
...walked down Market Street in San Francisco last Monday morning you would have had the uncanny impression that it was still Sunday. Even municipal streetcars, the last to halt, were in the barns, their operators at home, afraid to take them out. There were no taxicabs in sight. There were few automobiles; filling stations had closed Saturday. Many business offices were deserted, and those who went to work arrived on foot. In the whole city only 19 "accredited"' restaurants were open. Their seating capacity was 3,600. In San Francisco live 600,000 men, women and children...
...Rome, popped into his Alfa-Romeo and scorched southward deep into the malarial marshes of the Pontine. A motorcade of 200 cars pursued him bearing officials and newshawks most of whom wrote that night "Today I rode with Mussolini." Suddenly Il Duce's car slit) screaming to a halt at a blue plaster farmhouse known in the new Fascist reclamation project at Sabaudia as Podere (Farm ) No. 685. The black-shirted peasant homesteader on No. 685 who had won the Dictator's notice by begetting seven children, had neatly stacked good golden wheat in the front yard...