Word: halte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week record-collecting campaign came to an official halt this week, with returns still far from complete, Manhattan headquarters felt sure that the haul had netted at least 20,000,000 records-5,000 tons of scrap material...
...even Nelson's closest friends conceded that he had often been too easygoing, too loth to issue harsh commands when even a second's delay was fatal. The metal that poured into refrigerators and race-track grandstands six months ago, before WPB got around to calling a halt, was now irretrievably gone. And Nelson sat right where the blame, deserved and undeserved, would all fall...
With mid-summer exams coming up, the athletic department has called a temporary halt to the required physical training program for next week, the week of August 3 to August...
...this week were cancelled because of rain, but director of House sports Adolph Samborski '26 says they will be played off in the first week of the second semester. The inter-House athletic program, as well as all the other athletic activities of the College, will come to a halt next week as the whole school digs in for exams...
...masses, won advances by brute weight. It answered the question which had puzzled Washington and London: Was there really a Red defense-in-depth, and, if so, how had the Nazis advanced 190 miles in 19 days? The Red Army did have deep defenses, but they were designed to halt German forces of the kind which invaded Russia last year. Against this new offense, the Red Army now had to organize a new defense...