Word: halt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peter Rabbit was followed, in the next few years, by two more Tales-The Tailor of Gloucester, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. Then stern Father Potter called a halt. "I have had such painful unpleasantness at home," wrote Beatrix to her publisher, "that I should be obliged if you will kindly say no more about a new book." When Publisher Norman Warne, who had fallen head over heels in love with his shy little author, responded with a proposal of marriage, Mr. Potter was horrified. He forbade the marriage on the grounds that no daughter of his should marry "trade...
Hard-running by the Lowell backs and hard-charging by the Lowell line spelled defeat for the Puritans, who were unable to halt the co-ordinate Bellboy attack, which operated almost exclusively on the ground. On the defense, the black-shirted Lowell forward wall constantly thwarted the Winthrop T formation plays, so that the Puritans were forced to take to the air for their first two downs. Only once during the game was Winthrop in Lowell territory, that coming as the result of a recovered Bellboy fumble...
...raising of less wheat, corn, sugar, and pigs? Was it progressive to array class against class in a theretofore classless nation? Was it progressive for the administration to make international commitments secretly? Was it progressive to place in the hands of a few men the power to halt production and paralyze transport? Is it progressive so to restrict industry through myriad conflicting controls that the machine which armed the anti-axis world cannot today supply the essential needs of our own people? I, for one, doubt...
There was no scrimmage at Varsity football practice yesterday, but Coach Dick Harlow sent his charges through a long, varied workout before calling a halt at early dusk. It was the Crimson's last full session before the meeting with Coast Guard on Saturday...
...would call Congress back into session to pass a stronger law if it failed to halt inflation...