Word: halts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother decides it's high time to halt the family weakness for defaulting. This time she'll be firm and signal for the police. Her son's sweetheart, whose estate the son has largely defrauded, suddenly decides that jail is none too good for him. (He has just reminded her that her dad killed himself because of his dad, and she resents it.) On the verge of his trial, the son threatens to jump his bail, and the mother kills herself, with some notion of thus straightening out everything. She leaves a trust fund...
...Huge airdromes, numbers of air squadrons will line the entire coast. London will be protected by a complete loop of such defenses, and the industrial districts will be similarly protected. These plans call for 52 well equipped squadrons within four years. If a Labor Ministry does not call a halt, England will soon be at least on a par with France in air power...
...many chimpanzees have been taken out of Africa by irresponsible persons that the French government has called a halt. The Governor General of French West Africa issued an order against the capture, detention and sale or exportation of living chimpanzees in French territory. Special permits will be issued only to scientists and medical investigators to secure the animals for scientific experimentation, and these are limited as to time and number. The apes may be captured only with nets or traps, and not wounded...
...plant is no longer adequate even for the present classes. The existing faculty can cope with further numbers only by indulging in the methods of mass production and specialized training which have become so characteristic of the mammoth state universities of the country. It is time to call a halt if only in order to formulate plans for a further advance...
...rate a halt is necessary--a halt during which it will be possible to determine whether a further advance is merely a problem of increased physical equipment, or whether there is something more subtle which limits Harvard's effectiveness to a certain size, or whether, finally, there is some entirely new factor which will solve the clouded situation...