Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...According to Time Magazine you have broken all Harvard records for ice-cream consumption by eating eighteen dishes after dinner stop Having just consumed forty small dishes equalling twenty large dishes of ice-cream directly after dinner I consider myself worthy of defending Princeton's honor by challenging you to an ice-cream consumption duel after the Harvard-Princeton football game next Saturday stop Since I am not a runner I suggest we play eighteen holes of golf before breakfast next morning stop Princeton hopes Harvard's ice-cream champion will not get cold feet." (Signed) Paul Vermont Tector...
...receipt of your telegram stop Please be advised that I should like very much to go to bat with you in an ice-cream eating duel stop Where shall we eat stop If Princeton beats Harvard in Saturday's football game I am willing to eat at Princeton stop If Harvard wins are you willing to come to Cambridge stop If tie I suggest eating at New Haven stop Await reply...
...sheet of water covered the midfield area and rapidly gained sufficient depth to actually float the ball in places. Every play looked more like an outboard motor race than a football game, and when the backs were tackled they stirred up impressive "bow waves" as they skidded to a stop. And simultaneous with the appearance of white-caps on the jumping pits, the band struck up "How Dry I Am," and someone suggested that Charlie Butter be taken from the cheer-leading squad and sent in to swim the ball around right...
Karayan. But Karayan had meanwhile moved. He never received it. One morning last week as the consul general's car slowed to a stop outside his consulate, indignant Mejardich Karayan fired six quick shots from a doorway across the street, killing James Theodore Marriner. To police he explained that he had nothing against Mr. Marriner personally-the consul general just happened to arrive first at the consulate that morning...
...fight Japan as they thought China should. Last month General Pai became Chief of Staff to the Generalissimo. Last week after a final patching up of broken friendships in Nanking, General Li went north to command 50,000 troops he had sent ahead from the south to try to stop the Japanese in Shantung. Shantung's Governor, famed General Han Fu-chu whom Japanese have been trying to win over by bribes, thus had to make up his mind last week, clarioned: "I urge all under my command to vow resistance to Japan until...