Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President intended to use these enormous powers to inflate prices to the 1926 level and to stop there. Once he starts, can he, will he stop...
Though the world was loudly promised that Japan's invasion of Jehol would stop at the Great Wall of China, Japanese troops found themselves occupying about 1,000 sq. mi. of Chinese territory inside the Wall last week, firing at fleeing Chinese only 100 mi. from Tientsin. Heaviest fighting took place at Leng Pass 50 miles inland from Shanhaikwan. Because Japanese citizens and taxpayers were grimly considering the first official casualty lists of the Jehol campaign (1,479 Japanese soldiers killed, 3,468 wounded), Japanese staff officers moved more prudently. Fifty field guns and 30 military planes pounded...
...work, his friends, all women acquaintances; she rapidly became much too much of an old-fashioned wife. Sergei, to whom love was not an all-consuming passion, was considerably bothered. After repeated scenes with Ludmilla he would ask himself: "Will there never come a time when women will stop being kept women, not in the monetary but in the spiritual sense, which is far worse...
Drinking at the University of Virginia used to be scientific. An earnest youth would begin to tipple at night, keep at it until noon the next day. Then he would stop, survey himself anxiously. Would his intoxication last until night? . . . Most students found it did not. But the reason for trying was that at university dances it was forbidden to drink. To enter the ballroom one was obliged to swear that he had drunk no spirits since noon. This pledge was kept remarkably inviolate by the young gentlemen of Virginia. Last week, as an experiment, the University honor committee lifted...
...last four years we have been unable to stop the decline in prices. It is probable that the inflation bill now before Congress will at least stop the fall of the price level and that in itself will be a great accomplishment. Inflation means that prices will rise and then business will improve because prices always advance faster than the costs of production. There are two ways in which prices may be raised. Either production must be cut or credits must be increased. Inflation is preferable to a curtailment of production because the latter method would lower the standard...