Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entente being thus well toasted, Mussolini and Laval again sat down at the big table, this time for three more hours of slugging, off-the-record negotiation. They proceeded to talk turkey about Italy's ambition to have naval equality with France, about French insistence that Il Duce stop flirting with the idea of ultimate revision of the Treaties of Versailles, Trianon. St. Germain, etc. More especially they talked about Abyssinia...
...newcomer to that small group of U. S. athletes for whom a stop watch is as conventional an accessory for public bathing as a pair of trunks, Flanagan last week was making what sportswriters call a "comeback'' at an age when many of his contemporaries are barely learning how-to swim. Son of a retired Miami butcher, Ralph Flanagan was discovered in 1926 at a newsboys' party, by Swimming Coach Steve Forsyth, who developed Katherine Rawls. By 1931, he had broken his first national record (1,650 yd. free style). He was on the Olympic team...
...President John Marcus Davis of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Ry. declared: "Few if any people will stop eating, wearing clothes, postpone getting married or change their habits, just because the stock market took a tumble...
...they may master one field of learning thoroughly and be stimulated to do creative thinking. Restriction of the tutorial work to one group of students necessarily would mean the educational objectives of the College would have to undergo fundamental change. Such change could hardly be regarded as a progressive stop...
...Committee's suggestion to inaugurate a trial period in the Sophomore year at the end of which the tutor would pass upon the student's ability to benefit from independent work is good one. Another stop in the same direction, which would also help the system out of its present financial dilemma, would be to make tutorial work optional with students, regardless, however, of their group rating. Certainly no tutor should be burdened with a student who regards the work as a necessary evil and who prepares for his conferences with little or no enthusiasm. But to deprive worthy students...