Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State's assent must be sought and obtained before each appointment of a dignitary of the Church in Spain. 4) Members of churchly orders will at once be excluded from industry-Spanish nuns must stop their needlework, Spanish monks their manufacture of liqueurs and other specialties...
...first score was tallied against the Freshmen this year when Beatty fought his way off tackle and went up the field to score a touchdown. Worcester Academy was on its way to a second score when Jackson intercepted a pass on his own 15-yard line to stop the rally at the end of the first half...
...told) cars in the Empire State Building can run, and the 74 in the Rockefeller Center building now being constructed will run, at 1.200 ft. per min. (14 mi. per hr.). Speed is scarcely felt, because the cars start and stop smoothly. But many passengers become uncomfortable as they ride. The air pressure atop the great tower buildings is about one-half pound per square inch less than at the street level. Elevator passengers feel the difference as an annoying pressure on the ear drums. They overcome the discomfort by pretending to swallow. That action opens the eustachian tubes, allows...
...lobbies signs show which elevators rise to certain heights. Starters are polite and intelligent. Cars stop precisely at floor levels. On each floor a light and a bell bring the tenant to the door of the ele- vator which will stop for him. Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., which with Otis Elevator Co. leads in U. S. ele- vator research* now attaches photo-electric cells to elevators. These prevent elevator doors closing on passengers, allow the doors to close the instant the passenger safely enters...
...propose to fly non-stop (with a good pilot) to Cape Town. When over Victoria Falls my three darling babies, Homer, Luther and Sundae, will each make a parachute jump in honor of Queen Victoria, Dr. Livingstone and ex-Mayor James ('Washington') Walker, respectively...