Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from displeased by such Soviet bravado, prominent British Tories welcomed it as sufficient provocation to break off Anglo-Soviet trade relations, stop alleged Soviet "dumping" in British markets...
Admitting frankly that their gyroscopes do not stop seasickly pitching, Sperry engineers assert: "There is just one available practical procedure for stopping pitching and that is to change the course of the ship," tacking her back & forth about 20°. With an unstabilized ship, tacking against a heavy sea would increase the roll. With gyros correcting her roll and tacking correcting her pitch a ship need not slow down in heavy weather. By her greater speed she will more than regain, according to Sperry tests, the time and distance she loses by tacking, estimated at about 15%. To make this...
...great man was explaining the custom of "plucking," and the Vagabond listened. Outside those blood red curtains, snow was whirling to the gentle stop that tomorrow would be mud, but within there was a sort of dark brown warmth. To be sure, there was bric-a-brac, there was the sky blue oriental, there were landscapes, and there were the chandeliers, but this did not matter; for there were outstretched legs with two shiny boots at their ends, and there was the cupped ear. "Liquid jade," he mused, and was reconciled...
Abruptly last week the unlikely happened, as it often does in Moscow. Dictator Josef Stalin, whose State is now harder pressed than ever for valuta, decided to stop hoarding Russians, offered in effect to sell them out of Russia for cash (valuta...
There are other good songs ("I Got Religion," "Should I Be Sweet?") but "Smoothie," rendered by Mr. Haley and Miss Merman, consistently manages to stop the show to the embarrassment of Funnyman Silvers whose adjacent skit begins with his being kicked out of a saloon. The first two nights he was kicked out eight times. Take a Chance affords capital amusement-with...