Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about to publish an article alleged to have been written by me, under the caption Germany's Aim: She Wants More Territory. ... I declare herewith explicitly that I have written no such paper either for you or any other publication. ... I expect in fairness that you will immediately stop the issue in question, or, if too late for that, you will make known my disavowal...
HRANAHEE! A pandemonium of sirens, alarm bells and whistles brought all Warsaw business to a stop, just before Chancellor Hitler received in Berlin the new Polish "Goodwill Minister," suave M. Jozef Lipski. WHAM! Enemy planes scored direct hits on Warsaw's main railway station with confetti bombs as station employes touched off cannon crackers and released a flock of pigeons. Clang! Clang! Fire engines dashed through Warsaw to pretend to put out fires which blazed on the roofs struck by confetti bombs. The crackling, roaring flames were real but they belched from flame pots always under control...
Chicago, supposed to be the weakest team in the Western Conference, made Illinois work for its touchdown in the second period, work even harder to stop a Chicago drive on their 1-yd. line a minute before the game ended, 7-to-0. The victory left Illinois, like Ohio State, which it plays this week, a chance for the Big Ten championship-in case Northwestern beats Michigan and Wisconsin beats Minnesota this week...
...water, makes a floor for the plane. Winches are brought into play and presently plane, apron and all are hoisted aboard like a toy in a napkin. The plane is mounted on the Westphalen's catapult whence it is shot off to continue its journey. After its overnight stop last week, the Monsoon was shot off in the morning for an easy day's flight of 950 mi. to Natal, Brazil. Total elapsed time across the ocean: 33½ hr. Other flying boats were standing by for additional rehearsal flights during the coming rainy season for the regular...
...Post, the People's Big Brother?" Did not the Post Building facade bear in two foot gilt that stirring invitation, "O Justice, when expelled from other habitations, make this thy dwelling place"? Had not Bonfils offered three awards: $25000 for the Denver Post tuberculosis cure, $25000 for a non stop world flight beginning and ending in Denver, $50000 to the man who would insure that the first thing Mars learned about on our planet was the Denver Post...