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Word: stopped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waving his fists and shouting, he said--"If you want to be sincere, don't stop at an embargo but stop the shipment of things that contribute to mass murder...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

...Whitey's success in the field of propaganda doesn't stop with the gridiron. Why, it was Whitey who landed Dartmouth on the front page of all the nation's papers with the story of Heavenly Gates, the quarterback who left the pig-skin for a religious retreat...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

...Vice President Garner, warning Moley about his poor newspaper publicity: "Stop exposing yourself or you'll get your butt spanked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Moley's Hymn | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...organized soon after World War I, repeatedly accused by "Little Hercules" of now receiving funds from the newer German Nazis. One afternoon last week, as the Premier was being driven home to lunch, a young woman suddenly shoved a cart in front of his car, which was forced to stop with squealing brakes. At the same moment up swooped two cars from which leaped masked gunmen. They rapidly blazed away at Little Hercules. His bodyguard went down under the fusillade, his chauffeur collapsed, and the Rumanian Premier toppled forward riddled with bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Blood for Blood | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Brooklyn saloon, Patrolman William Deichler did his favorite trick. Removing five bullets from his six-shooter, he said: "I'll pull the trigger and stop the bullet before it gets in my mouth." Patrolman Deichler lost count, pulled the trigger six times, fell dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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