Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This field recommends itself for its simplicity and ability to carry on in the open. Whose word would tell whether Eliot's Five Foot Shelf being escorted away under an arm belonged to, was being borrowed, or stolen by the owner of that arm? To stop everybody seen with a book is practically impossible...
...Kansas trains approaching a cross-road must stop and neither proceed until the other has gone; in Connecticut a man was arrested for kissing his wife; and in Cambridge no person shall allow a goat to graze in the street...
...typical trip was one made Thursday night when the group left Phillips Brooks House at about 7:30 o'clock making its first stop in Scollay Square. A vitriolic attack on Hearst came near precipitating a riot at this spot...
Frequently during the first half of the journey, the train stopped to let enthusiasts get pictures of historic spots or routine railroad practice "behind the scenes." Highlights were a refueling station near Hebron, an old covered bridge near Liberty Mills, the engine house at Fort Wayne, where a turntable was turned, engineers posed and various locomotives were arrayed with placards explaining size, name, power, type, use. At each stop there were lectures by guides in overalls and white gauntlets. Other amusements consisted of a World Series broadcast, bridge games, an accordion player. Next trip is scheduled...
...backbone of football practice at almost every college in the U. S. is practice scrimmage. At Minnesota, scrimmages stop when football starts. Instead of scrimmaging - which Bierman considers boring, dangerous, and useless :for college players old errough to know the game - -Minnesota's first-string players concentrate on kicking, running off plays, working on individual weaknesses, harassing a Bierman-invented dummy. Reversing, the normal order of training any football team was merely Coach Bierman's beginning at Minnesota. Next he revised all Minnesota's individual peculiarities. Concentrating on brains instead of power, he built teams around smart...