Word: halts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With two crews journeying to Philadelphia for the regatta on Saturday, the University oarsmen have been having a week of easy workouts. This afternoon, with the possibility of a four-mile row in preparation for the coming strenuous days at Red Top, the first heavyweight crew will call a halt in its spring practice until next Sunday, when the squad is to leave for the southern training camp...
...Germany a large section of the Press was indignant. Germania, the Cabinet organ, flayed "M. Briand's astoundingly sharp answer to a calm and purely objective speech by the German Foreign Minister." French Plan. The Curtius-Briand quarrel brought United-States-of-Europe talk to an abrupt halt. It also weakened the slender chance that the League Council (which can only act by unanimous vote) would be able to get anywhere with its May agenda. When the Council met, two days later, two of its biggest jobs were: 1) to prepare for the (League) World Disarmament Conference, which...
...Department's foolish shipments caused great annoyance to the S. 0. S. When extra long piles were needed for piers, they were sent over?sawed in pieces to fit between a ship's bulkheads. General Pershing had to order a halt on such nonessentials as "bath bricks, bath tubs, bookcases, cuspidors, floor wax, stepladders, lawn mowers, sickles, stools and window shades." Winter clothing for troops did not arrive until long after the first snows...
Forced by the wakes of the launches to call a halt at the three-quarter mile mark, the second featherweight shell was led over the finish-line by the 1933 craft with a margin of half a length. Both crews had suffered considerably from the rough water. The lighter boat, rowing in the outer lane, was restricted to a beat of 31, in which it seemed to do its best spacing...
...sugar-syrup which it imported from Cuba. Consultants Johnston and Cutting were called in. They found that if the solution were 48% sugar instead of 68% the duty would be 83^ a ton. But this solution would ferment within ten days. Hence they suggested that syrup ships halt at the three-mile limit while the syrup was being mixed with water to reduce its sugar content. They charged that the company had promised to let them patent the idea and then to buy it for at least $500,000, but waited not, paid...