Word: haltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON sees no reason either to commend or to deplore the results of the ballot. The response reveals that the project was not sufficiently attractive to gain adequate support. Therefore it must submit to at least a temporary halt. There are, however, other avenues of approach to this problem. Eventually there will come a change in eating habits in Harvard University; realizing this, the CRIMSON has tried to prepare for that change. That its essay has not met with success is in no way a proof that its efforts have been misdirected...
...high noon the Vagabond is confronted with the same problem which gave him halt on Monday, for Professor Post at Fogg Museum is continuing his series of lectures on "Florentine Painting of the Fifteenth Century", while Professor Conant at Robinson Hall continues his discussion of Early Christian architecture with a lecture on "Basilicas...
...abort at three months, or was the halt in her menses during the three months due to some other thing, to an unknown cause? It is impossible to say, except that artificial fecundation rarely succeeds...
Work in the oil fields came to a halt. Derricks and donkey engines were crawling with mice. Reservoirs and pipelines were clogged with drowned bodies. And still the mice came, endlessly advancing, followed by wheeling, crying flocks of birds great and small ?hawks, vultures, owls, magpies, jays, even (according to the Associated Press) wild ducks which, seldom carnivorous (except for fish), must presumably have mistaken the undulating carpet of rodents for a grey lake. Running amuck in the tumbling, whispering, squeaking herds went coyotes and wildcats; even a wolf was seen. But mankind had warred too well upon...
Recreation and social work carried on among the youth of Italy by the Knights of Columbus, the Y. M. C. A. and various Methodist organizations are coming rapidly to a halt as the new "Young Fascist" organizations, the Balilla and the Avanguardia, are forcibly superceding them. Youths join the Balilla at 8, the Avanguardia at 14 and, if approved, the Fascist party...