Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horror-stricken editorial page. All in the same breath, with no hint of the fact that in itself it has recently been driving towards Fascism, it now violently and somewhat ludicrously attacks both Communism and Fascism in the schools and colleges. In heavy type, it urges American parents to "STOP SENDING THEIR CHILDREN TO INFECTED SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES AND EXPOSING THEM TO THESE POISONOUS ALIEN PLAGUES...
...Government asks for power to throttle speculation and stop panic. Today is the time to act rather than to talk. Just at the time when world stabilization of moneys seemed possible, an attack has been launched on the franc...
...darkrooms in Chicago and Detroit have closeted mysterious goings-on. Last March the result of this secret business first showed in the pages of the Chicago Tribune. Last month it appeared in Hearst's Detroit Times. Last week it landed in the Detroit Free Press. The secret: sharp "stop-action" strip pictures of fast-moving objects. Each newspaper was working with its own camera invention, was still secretive about details. But enough facts had leaked out to indicate that a new action-picture vogue was about to spread through the U. S. Press...
...story Market Street skyscraper, Philadelphia's most modern store. More conservative than Gimbel's, second only to Wanamaker's in total sales, Strawbridge & Clothier prides itself on a long list of innovations. It sent out the first typewritten bills in 1900. It dared to stop giving discounts to clergymen in 1919. It was Philadelphia's first store to install airconditioning, first to establish branches in the city's rich & regal suburbs where the Strawbridges and the Clothiers have long been socialites. It was first to adopt an efficiency filing system by which...
...collie "Shep," his blackened pipe, his comfortable Congress gaiters and his crushed black hat, he refused until last year to accept an automobile from his flock, preferring to ride from parish to parish on a sturdy grey horse. Once, said he, his eye for horseflesh caused him to stop to admire a number of mounts tethered in Huntington. One of the horse-owners asked the way to a bank. That man, said Father Quirk, turned out to be Jesse James. He robbed the bank...