Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been arrested for assault. Last April when he was annoyed by the radio of one Theodore Cohen, a neighbor in Washington's Chastleton Hotel, he marched into Neighbor Cohen's room and punched him on the jaw. "I asked him like a gentleman over the phone to stop the racket." explained the Minnesota Congressman. "Then I went up and stopped it myself. But I got a doctor to sew him up." Two months before that Francis Shoemaker had been involved in a newsworthy fracas in Minneapolis. While under the influence of an opiate administered for a tooth extraction...
...meager reports indicated that the two men flew from Djibouti across the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and 900 mi. northeast into the Great Arabian Desert, almost to the Persian Gulf; that they found walled ruins in such a hilly terrain they dared not land and returned non-stop to Djibouti; that they would attempt the trip again. Unknown to history, even in legend the Queen of Sheba emerges only as a resplendent traveler to the court of Solomon. In varying forms the Bible, Koran and Talmud all tell the tale. According to I Kings 10, she came to Solomon...
...Nevertheless, the continuation of deaths in the Army Air Corps must stop. . . . Will you therefore please issue immediate orders to the Army Air Corps stopping all carrying of airmail except on such routes, under such weather conditions and under such equipment and personnel conditions as will insure . . . against constant recurrence of fatal accidents...
...cave with her Portuguese lover, Ramon. To Labor Agitator Marvin, Fullerton was another opportunity. When the Baumann mill announced a 10% wage-cut to protect its dividends, trouble started. Marvin organized a strike. Ramon, who had been promoted, was too ambitious to join, but Micky did. That put a stop to their affair. Mrs. Thayer thought Ramon, with a little polishing, might do for her Marjorie, but as Marjorie. lately seduced by Harry Baumann, shrank from the idea. Mrs. Thayer took him herself. Harry, tired of familiar sensations, joined the strikers; got a brand-new sensation when he went...
...Dean's office will demand that assurances be given on these matters. In accordance with official custom in such an affair it may go even farther and put a stop to the whole thing. The former would be an obvious duty; the latter would be a grave mistake. For, let there be no misunderstanding, any sincere and scientific investigation of this kind merits support as a courageous effort to supply data on an important subject which has been needlessly and unintelligently obscured. All that any sensible man can ask is that there be certain definite evidence of responsibility. It would...