Word: stall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have Secretary General Joseph Avenol cable back immediately to Addis Ababa that the League Council, generally dominated by the Great Powers, could scarcely be expected to convene the Assembly before itself deliberating so important a question. This maneuver effectively put the League of Nations into a dead stall at least until this week...
...soft brim, peculiarly endearing." Records Dorothy Cheston: "I remember that I felt curiously responsible, as though I were traveling with bullion." In Paris something happened that decided her heart: every morning Bennett would call for her, bearing a bunch of white flowers which he had bought at a stall on the corner. "He carried these flowers tightly, holding his arm rather high up and rather rigidly. His gesture reminded me of the King of Hearts in a pack of cards." What touched Dorothy Cheston's heart was that he was being daily cheated: the flowers were never quite fresh...
...meeting it was announced that the newly-elected committee will stall a club transmitter at the astronomical laboratory next week, with which they will be able to communicate with amateur stations and radio cars...
...want to be quoted as doing nothing but smile," declared Thomas S. McCaleb, instructor in Geographical Exploration, when questioned about Guglielmo Marconi's flendish invention. Swathed in rumor, this 'micro-wave' machine is supposed to stall the ignition system of airplanes...
...preceded by Pacers Winnipeg (1:57 1/4), Star Etawah (1 :59 1/4) and His Majesty (1 :59 1/4), for the past ten years. His silks are green & white. He wears glasses, smokes cigars, talks in monosyllables. After last week's race, Greyhound was led back to his stall, unharnessed, and fed by his stable boy a cigaret which he ate with relish. Undefeated in five trots this year, the only thing left for Greyhound to do to prove himself the equal of Peter Manning is to break the latter's world record of a mile...