Word: stopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anybody's private property, either. Nothing makes me more disgusted than the egotism of people who think they can use God-to make it stop raining on the day of the picnic, or spare their lives in a disaster. My family and I were in a train wreck a while ago in France. I had taken two of my children into the dining car ahead for some ice cream, and we were served unusually quickly-which meant that just before the wreck we had left the car, in which a great many people were killed. Some of my Christian...
...Wirtz to dissolve both clubs, sell their controlling interest in New York's Madison Square Garden, open both the Garden and Chicago Stadium to any qualified promoter. Neither the Garden nor the Stadium may stage more than two championship fights a year. ¶ Thrashing purposefully against a stop watch in the Olympic pool at North Sydney, Australia's incredible whiz-kid, Lisa Konrads, 14, touched out in 19 min. 25.7 sec., shattering the old world record for 1,500 meters by an amazing 37.4 sec. Brother John Konrads, 16, got into the act, too, set a new world...
...Federal Trade Commission last week issued a progress report on its all-out attack on phony price cutting. In the three months since FTC started the campaign with a warning to merchants to stop marking up goods in order to make fake price cuts seem to be bargains, 60 companies have learned their lesson the hard way. Box score: 33 complaints, 21 orders to cease and desist, and six consent agreements. Most of the actions (32) were against furriers, long among the most obvious of the price packers, but the campaign also extended to sellers of sewing machines, perfumes, women...
...Portable Stop Light. A portable, radio-controlled traffic light that fits into the trunk of a car was demonstrated by Porta-Signal Division of Dryomatic Corp. of Alexandria, Va. Designed for police use at school crossings, traffic jams, the light can be set to flash red or amber as a warning, or preset for a variety of green-amber-red cycles. It can also be operated by radio. Price...
...nearby St. Enoch's. Syson is a World War II flying hero whose Anglican orthodoxy is correct and painless. Most of his parishioners agree with him that Preedy is a humbug, but Preedy's miracles, performed in public, have convinced a few. Syson sets out to stop Preedy, and the matter comes to court. Not only does Syson fail, but he begins to re-examine his own faith. Like Gary himself, he does not deny God, but finds surer manifestations of him in the ordinary give and take of life than in established religion...