Word: stopped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Havana, with the attractions of Sloppy Joe's cuba libres and bacardis, and with a dance thrown for the Unit at the Biltmore Yacht Club, was the most popular stop on route. Every man had guest privileges at the Havana clubs, through special dispensation of the U. S. Ambassador...
...other stops were made at New York, for the Fair, and at Guantanamo, a naval base in Cuba. A stop in Charleston, South Carolina, was cancelled on account of infantile paralysis...
Suddenly the Vagabond noticed that the circle was dwindling. Suddenly he recalled that this might be a good time to stop. He had a whole year to go. He gave an excuse--a lame one--and then...
...capital, an East Prussian Army had struck southeastward to Brest-Litovsk, chief railroad centre between Warsaw and Russia. In the South, three separate drives penetrated deep into the Polish Ukraine. Lwow, the Ukrainian capital, was bombed, strafed, set afire, its water supply cut off, but the invaders did not stop to occupy it. On they plunged, passing to the north and south of Lwow, to the very remotest corner of Poland, where it meets Rumania...
...Leica camera, color-photographing stained glass windows faster than the French Government could replace them in the Gothic cathedrals from which it removed them during World War I. He photographed all the windows in tide-swept Mont St. Michel, Le Mans, Chartres. At times when he had to stop and rest, Robert Metcalf and his wife mounted his tiny 35 mm. color pictures between glass slides...