Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calm as a badger, up rose Idaho's wrinkled Borah, seldom the man to stop a good fight. He wanted to make way for an amendment to the Glass bill which would make it less obnoxious to the Long faction. He asked for unanimous consent to limit further debate on the bill in a proposal tantamount to cloture. "If we cannot secure agreement," he added grimly, "I myself am going to make a speech." He secured agreement...
...Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last week was held a Tammany Hall Victory Dinner to celebrate last November's electoral success in city, State and nation. On hand and still talking earnestly about economy was Tammany's own John Patrick O'Brien, stop-gap Mayor of New York.* To the tune of "In Old Shanty Town," 1.200 diners serenaded Boss John Francis Curry thus...
...When the train is running, the same three short blasts mean that the engineer has understood the signal to stop at the next station. Other important whistle-signals: Two long blasts, two short: approaching a highway crossing; three long blasts: train in motion has parted; one short blast: apply all brakes...
...appreciation of the situation should certainly not stop 'at mere self-satisfaction with the Association's success in solving immediate problems. The very fact that there was such a close call emphasizes once more the tottery financial foundation of Harvard's whole athletic program, which is forced to depend almost entirely on football receipts, thus necessitating much unfortunate "ballyhooing" and over-emphasis of that sport...
Once upon a time there was a little boy who sold peanuts to his friends. Now the little boy's peanuts were not especially good, but his friends bought them because they forgot to stop at the corner store, and because he was a nice little boy even if he did forget to wash behind his ears...