Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first lesson, which by the way takes place in the office with the bicycle set up on the stand, is a training in continued reflexes. The pupil is taught to put on the brake at the word "Stop." He (or she) is shown how to sit properly (hygienic posture it is called) and all in all everyone has a grand time...
...foredoomed his Administration. Tammany put its bets on Al Smith instead of Franklin Roosevelt at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Tammany bucked the nomination of honest Herbert Henry Lehman for Governor of the State. Tammany foisted bumbling old John Patrick O'Brien on the city as a stop-gap mayor. Tammany lost last year's municipal election to a Fusion-Republican ticket. For this accumulation of political sins Boss Curry last week paid with his head...
...between Bolivia & Paraguay last week reached its Gettysburg. Under French-trained General Estigarribia the Paraguayans, born short-end fighters, had harried the Bolivians northwestward across the jungle to the Pilcomayo River, backed them up against their last Chaco stronghold, Fort Ballivian. The Paraguayans planned to take Ballivian and stop. They found the Bolivians entrenched in open hayfields, for the first time in the war. General Estigarribia's artillery bombarded the trenches for two days. On the second the first wave of Paraguayans stumbled out into the hayfields in a close formation bayonet charge. The Bolivians had their first...
...cards, less brutal than bearbaiting, more spectacular than roulette. Largely because of these advantages, horse racing has long seemed a particularly pernicious sport to those who consider all gambling immoral. At the turn of the Century there started a wave of earnest reform to curtail gambling by putting a stop to racetrack betting. Typical was the history of the reform in New York, where there has generally been more horse racing than anywhere else...
Departing for "several years" in Europe, Pulitzer Prizewinning Historian James Truslow Adams declared: "A real recovery . . . seems to carry all before it, despite man's foolishness. . . . Almost no imbecility can prevent its rise. Even Congress will have to make some terrible blunders to stop...