Word: halt
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...powerful gravitational influence is evident from the way galaxies spin on their axes and orbit one another. There is at least 10 times as much dark matter as visible matter, in fact, and perhaps as much as 100 times as much--which would be enough eventually to halt and reverse the universe's headlong expansion. Even at the low end, dark matter's dominant gravity largely accounts for the existence of galaxies and their assemblage into huge structures known as the Great Wall and the Great Attractor. Give neutrinos as little as a few ten-thousandths of the mass...
...that than one might imagine: the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan are just two of several parables that appear in only one version. By 1926, Rudolf Bultmann of Germany's University of Marburg, the foremost Protestant scholar in the field, threw up his hands: he called for a halt to inquiries regarding the Jesus of history. So unreliable were the Gospel accounts that "we can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus." He advised good Christian scholars to concentrate on the Jesus of faith. But, as it turns out, they didn...
...lawyer representing the Harvard Alumni Architectural Review Committee (HAARC) asked a judge in the Middlesex Superior Court yesterday for a preliminary injunction continuing the current halt of all construction on the Harvard Union...
...This temporary restraining order has brought to a screeching halt eight years of planning and consultation," Felter said, pointing out that losses equal the salary of one faculty member of the University...
...next moment as youthfully impulsive as the Harrow schoolboy he once was. He spent one typical morning gravely conferring on affairs of state in his palace office, then suddenly ordered his private de Havilland plane made ready, zipped out to the airport in his Lincoln, screeched to a halt, jumped out and asked a saluting R.A.F. officer, 'O.K. if I go to Jerusalem?'...Privately he admits that Israel is probably there to stay." --April...