Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graph of indices. We find a gradual climb fluctuating throughout the centuries, and not sign of decrease that is large enough to be considered. Therefore, if the future continues as the past, war will not disappear from the face of the earth, but will continue regardless of efforts to stop it. Although war has been most undesirable, the steady pronounced increase continues; but desirability is one thing, and probability is another
...march they have been widely used in small molded shapes. Late developments make it possible to mold large objects (chair backs and legs, table tops, radio cabinets) from plastics. Tanks nine feet in diameter have been molded from Haveg, a phenol-aldehyde. Textiles can be impregnated with plastics to stop their creasing. Dr. Ellis believes that "the synthetic resin dwelling house is fast approaching realization," and that "resins made from urea & formaldehyde possess several advantages over those from phenol & formaldehyde. They are stronger, lighter in color, more resistant to darkening under the influence of light...
...will have a desk dotted with buttons to play on. Each music stand will have six lights: a white one for the first beat in a measure, blue for the successive beats; red to mean soft, green to mean loud, red and green together to hold, lights out to stop. Besides these each stand will have two smaller lights to convey individual messages to the players, say when the conductor wants the kettledrummer to pummel out a thundering crescendo...
...Boooooo!" the brokers' clerks shouted back. The Mayor's mighty jaw clamped shut. He grew red in the face and faltered in his waving. A halt in the parade brought the brokers to a stop before the stand...
...cast of features of the Swahili Africans. He went up to the darky and began jabbering away in Swahili, and in a couple of seconds the Redcap was down bumping his head on the floor and thrashing his arms about. It took the anthropologist two or three minutes to stop the tantrum, which he did by switching to English. It came out that the Harvard man had been in the Redcap's home town; knew some of his cousins...