Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Modern cycles have two-wheel brakes. They can stop on a dime. With a gear shift, they can travel as slowly as 4 miles an hour and still have perfect control. This permits safe riding in a crowd...
...limiting outside games, the value and enjoyment of the minor sports are materially reduced. Substantial cost reductions will be very difficult to achieve, unless the hitherto high standard of coaching is done away with and men of Jessor ability employed. For these reasons the new step is a stop-gap-measure, which, if allowed to become permanent, will result in the impaired utility of the newly-supported sports, since it is very difficult to see how "substantial savings" can be made, unless the minor sports are revived on a lessened-efficiency basis...
...fight that we have at Harvard is not against enemies of communism, but against a machine of cheap, uneducated politicians. some of them have never gone beyond high school, yet they will stop at nothing to gain control of our whole educational system. Yesterday one of the committee members openly threatened Harvard and other universities with taxation. I thank God that we have a man on our faculty like James A. McLaughlin, who is familiar enough with Boston to expose this ruthless opposition. Exposure is what it needs. Once its real purpose is apparent, all our good little people will...
...full-page World-Telegram advertisement of the new edition. But $4,100 looked good to Publisher Edmond David Coblentz of Hearst's morning American. Fifteen hundred copies of the American containing the World-Telegram advertisement were on the streets when a command came straight from Publisher Hearst to stop the presses, strike it out. Meantime the Journal's panicky editors were ordered on about twelve hours' notice to add a new eight-page section to their Saturday edition, solved the problem by concocting an amusement section with cuts blown up to enormous size...
...fond of him. But the crowd that buzzes around him, dedicated to "wealth, unchastity, and disobedience to all standards," she finds increasingly hard to bear. Marc has one vice, gambling. One bad evening at Le Touquet he gets drunk, starts to play. Because it is the only way to stop him Isabelle makes a ghastly scene which costs her a miscarriage. After a weary convalescence she decides to leave Marc and marry a young painter who is just her sort. But at the last minute she finds she cannot leave Marc after...