Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporter Powell's wife and four-year-old son, accompanied by a maid, were courteously ushered out of the building by the mobsters. But earlier, in the tonneau of their automobile, they had seen their native chauffeur shot dead when he ignored a rioter's order to halt...
...survey course such as elementary Fine Arts has pictures and slides to form continuity in the student's mind, but Philosophy A leaves behind for many only a host of intellectual specters headed by octogenarian Socrates babbling worn out truths to a motley train of the lame, the halt, and the blind...
...market by bidding $205 for Steel when it was at $190, this time was willing to bid the market-price $150. At this figure 25,000 shares were sold in a single $3,000,000 transaction, but even indirect evidence that J. P. Morgan & Co. was buying failed to halt the decline. When Mr. Whitney was obliged to announce the Prince & Whitely failure from the floor of the exchange, many a blue-chip sank below its 1929 bottom. Traders noted these prices...
...recovery independently of what may happen elsewhere. . . . We shall need mainly to depend upon our own strong arm for recovery as other nations are in greater difficulty than we are. . . .* We must assure a higher degree of business stability . . . any recession in American business is but a temporary halt in the prosperity of a great people...
...building was purchased by C. C. Stillman '98, who intended to present the hall to the University in the Spring of 1927, but his death in December 1926 brought a halt to negotiations...