Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who have objected to the law on the grounds that it would encourage the national bureaucracy at the expense of the federal structure always stop their argument at that point. They do not go on to admit that, if the law is passed at all, the national bureaucracy could enforce it, and the state bureaucracies might not. They also do not answer the question as to whether the law should be passed. And yet all of them would resent the charge of legalism. POLLUX...
...approached its new par of 6.63? while the dollar fell correspondingly. The pound, which has no fixed gold value, was up from $5.05 to $5.08. As the dollar approached its new par, the profit in importing gold gradually declined, which in turn promised to reduce and eventually stop gold imports...
...wild beast of the mountains." His men reverently called him San Digno (The Worthy Saint). When he went into battle he hung extra cartridge belts around his neck, shined up his puttees and stuck a jungle flower into his shovel-shaped cowboy hat. The Nicaraguan Government could not stop him. Five thousand U. S. Marines chased him for five years, killed nearly 1,000 of his followers, reported him dead a score of times but never laid hands on him. U. S. newspapers uniformly called him "bandit." But what Sandino wanted, and what he finally got in January...
...Bureau of Mines researchers have sought, through experiments on cats & dogs, to discover the cause of and remedy for such failures in resuscitation. They have found, reported Dr. Royd Ray Sayer of the U. S. P. H. S., that both carbon monoxide poisoning and lack of oxygen not only stop respiration but also injure brain cells and the central nervous system. Insufficient, therefore, is ordinary oxygen resuscitation. Victims must also have pressure on their brains eased by catharsis, spine punctures or bleeding. Roundly Dr. Sayer condemned the use of blood transfusions which, said he, by increasing brain pressure only makes...
...Samuel Johnson stop going backstage at David Garrick's theatre...