Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vertical current rammed the ship down. . . . Suddenly speeded engines pulled her tail lower. ... A green helmsman at the elevator controls let her nose rise too high, causing a stall. . . . Jammed elevators. . . . Damaged stabilizer. . . . Broken gas cells...
...alive who has won the Grand National thrice, to start a stable of steeplechasers for him at Wantage, England. They almost won the Grand National on their first try but Easter Hero, leading a record field of 66, twisted a plate (which now hangs on the door of his stall at Langollen), limped home second. In the U. S., Jock Whitney began to build his string after his marriage to utterly horsy Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus of Philadelphia two years ago. At "Langollen" (near Upperville, Va.), capital of the Jock Whitneys' horse activities...
...waited for March 4 and the change of administration to start this parade of economists, financiers and industrialists at the Capitol. He had gotten the Senate to adopt his resolution calling for an investigation of the Depression at once. In his forehandedness he had a double purpose: 1) to stall off radical legislation at this session; 2) to give the Roosevelt Administration all available ideas on relief as early as possible...
...tails and composing their jaws, Mrs. Dodge eyed them, felt their flanks, examined their teeth. Her own taste runs to big dogs. She waved the Pekingese and poodle aside in a jiffy. The Spaniel went next. It took her only 18 minutes to put the Airedale in the winning stall, with the Great Dane and the greyhound unofficially second and third...
...international contests. His rider, small curly-haired Captain Daniel J. Corry of the Irish Free State Army, takes special pride in his own jumping pony. First Attempt, a little grey gelding who caught cold in Boston last month, spent most of last week coughing and munching apples in his stall...