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Word: stops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consider that if a nation insists on attacking another the other nations should combine to compel it to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...community of youth. The vigour of a well-played game may be experienced as one deftly dodges the cars in the Square. The odds are highly in favor of the runner. With the exception of taxis and the Coop truck any car can be brought to a dead stop by a calm but firm walk across its path. Cars never attain a dangerous speed in the Square; it is impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/25/1935 | See Source »

...ever stop to consider that you, too, are a possible selection for the Princeton Crew? Some go up and some go down, here today and gone tomorrow, seems to be the motto of the Tiger coach. For, would you believe it, Princeton has no varsity crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/25/1935 | See Source »

This is all very true, but why stop there? Why not add that a two-thirds majority was necessary to pass the proposal, thus Perry's dream of playing in tennis movies and defending the Davis Cup for England went up in smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1935 | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

Brass Tacks. Either the Stresa Conference was going to induce Britain to stop vacillating and take a firm stand on Adolf Hitler and problems raised by his tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, March 25) or endless temporizing must continue. As Sir John Simon was told to his face in the House of Commons by an irate M. P. just before he and the Prime Minister left England last week, "We have heard where France, Italy, Germany, Russia and Poland stand but we don't know where our own country stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Island Diplomacy | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

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