Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great crowds gathered in streets of San Juan, of Rio Piedras, of many a village and hamlet throughout Puerto Rico last week. They had but one purpose: to stop all motor traffic. They scattered tacks, nails, scraps of iron, pieces of glass over the pavements. Automobiles that did not disappear prudently into driveways were attacked by gangs who drove nails into their tires, smashed their windshields with bricks. Thus, from end to end of their island, Puerto Ricans struck against the high price of gasoline...
...summer weather at Houston that afternoon. The night brought winter winds which pitched and tossed the plane. Mrs. Trammell and a nurse took turns holding the baby. At one refueling stop Jimmy Wedell borrowed an overcoat. At 1:57 a. m., 11 hr. after leaving Houston, the plane landed on Baltimore's snow-encrusted airport. An ambulance sped the Trammells to Johns Hopkins where Dr. Dandy's associate, Dr. Paul A. Kunkel, confirmed the Houston diagnosis of hydrocephalus...
...Hollywood film sequence in which he was required to puff a pipe made non-smoker Will Rogers so ill that production had to stop until some cubebs (medicinal cigarets used for asthma) could be procured...
...radio attachment which silences the set when music stops playing and someone begins to talk. The "robot" takes advantage of the fact that talkers must stop for breath. When it detects a quarter-second of silence it turns the set off for ten seconds, tries again & again until it gets continuous sound...
...part in the regulation particularly of wage bargains, they recoil in the same sort of terror before the unknown felt by liberal economists when they contemplate a broad program of industrial and agricultural regulation. Whether the alternative their attitude implies is any more desirable or even possible, they seldom stop to consider in any detail...