Word: halting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year later the Allied peacemakers, in the Treaty of St. Germain, set the boundaries for the new nation. To give Czecho-Slovakia a natural barrier which would serve to halt a German push to the east, the Allies, pressed by France and England, forwent strict interpretation of the principle of self-determination and recognized the Czech claim to the Sudeten region, largely populated by Germans. Also included within the frontiers was a small Polish minority in Silesia, a larger Hungarian minority in south Slovakia and the inhabitants of Carpathian Ruthenia, formerly under Hungarian rule, who requested union with...
Primitive and scientific explanations aside, by last week 16,500 inhabitants of the northwestern mountains of India had died in a cholera epidemic. Frantic sanitarians had vaccinated 600,000 persons, doused thousands of wells with germicidal potassium permanganate to halt an epidemic which began the end of April. Nonetheless, the epidemic has spread northwesterly into Afghanistan...
...Senate had planned to set up an independent Fair Labor Standards Board. with quasi-judicial powers (like NLRB's) to halt the transit in interstate commerce of goods produced under conditions not conforming to the act. The House planned to empower the Labor Department to go into the States and see to it that goods for interstate commerce were legally produced. The House won, and the compromise bill's administrative provisions strongly reminded businessmen of NRA's myriad code authorities. Chief provisions of the bill...
Although a think tulle fog overhung the four mile course, the zero visibility did not halt the first and second Varsity eights. No times were made public and it was announced that no results would be issued to the press during the training period...
Next morning, motoring to Germany with William F. Rueff, U. S. art student resident in Munich, a young British journalist and a Sudeten German deputy in the Czech Parliament, Unity's car was brought to a halt by military police in a military area...