Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME USUALLY ACCURATE HAVE AGAIN SLIPPED A COG STOP SUGGEST YOU EITHER CORRECT YOUR ESTIMATE MY EARNING POWERS OR CONVINCE MR. HEARST TO MEET YOUR TERMS SINCERELY...
...warden's terrified wife, rushed Leader Hofer to a waiting automobile. In ten minutes every frontier post was warned. Shrewdly the Nazis did not make for the heavily-guarded Bavarian border, but for Italy, 20 miles away. On the Brenner Pass road an Austrian gendarme tried to stop them, was nearly run down, fired at the car, struck Nazi Hofer in the knee. At 5 a. m. the car was found abandoned three miles from the Italian frontier at Gries. Alpine troops and gendarmes searched the mountainsides with bloodhounds, to no avail. Franz Hofer turned up safely over...
Major J. Nelson Kelly, manager of the field, who with his wife and Pilot George Haldeman followed the plane in an automobile after its start up the runway, said later that he felt sure de Pinedo would stop after his overladen ship, reeling drunkenly under 1,030 gal. of gasoline, veered almost off the concrete as it got up to 80 m.p.h. But the man in the cabin was obsessed. He straightened the Santa Lucia and roared ahead. He lifted the tail...
...President Jefferson bringing home able Minister Soong, famed for his uncompromising policy toward Japan. Japan cocked a belligerent eye on "any new developments in China's political situation that may occur subsequent to the return of T. V. Soong." Unofficial plans were made to have Minister Soong stop off in Tokyo for quiet conversations with Japanese officials. But when the S. S. President Jefferson docked last week in Yokohama, Minister Soong refused to leave the ship...
Just how different this match was to be did not become apparent even when Helen Jacobs had won the first set, 8-6, keeping Mrs. Moody on the defensive, chopping back her fastest drives to the corners of the court so that she never had a chance to stop running from one end of her baseline to the other. In the next set, Mrs. Moody seemed to have recovered some of her old assurance. When Helen Jacobs crept up to 3-all from 0-3, Mrs. Moody briskly ran off three more games in a row. After a ten-minute...