Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innocent man. We have last-minute evidence to prove it." Three loudspeaker vans were already driving back & forth blaring out "Abide With Me". A mob of 50 sandwich men paraded with signs. Mrs. Van der Elst's supreme inspiration, three airplanes zoomed above the prison, trailing banners, "Stop the Death Sentence." Promptly at 9 o'clock, the trap dropped under Murderer Brigstock. "Gentlemen remove your hats," Cried Mrs. Van der Elst, falling on her knees. Later she said: "I pay ?12,000 ($60,000) income tax and I have a right to be heard by the Government...
...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...
...score stands even now between the hecklers and the strikers. It will not be important, even if it is amusing, who wins the third clash. What is essential is that the thousands who believe in peace have the courage to favor a practical stop to bring it about. It is not half so dramatic but it might work...
...high as he thought they would. Belgian shopkeepers, keen exchange watchers, raised prices this week almost as fast as the belga fell. This made Premier van Zeeland so angry that he lashed out: "The Belgian franc ought to buy just as much merchandise as it did a year ago. Stop thinking of the monetary question, my countrymen! We are here to defend the franc and your savings. Keep calm...
...Methodist Board of Temperance, and brandished over the head of a Methodist conference in Seaford, Del. Asked for an opinion on smoking, Bishop Hughes warmly gave it: "If I felt that I could not live up to my obligations as minister, I would hand in my credentials and stop preaching. I would not walk up & down the streets a self-confessed liar by puffing a cigar. . . . Many ministers complain they are not getting results in their works. How can you expect God to bless a liar? . . . When any member of this conference violates his obligation not to use tobacco...