Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressional Record, costing $58 per page, does not stop with Congress. For ten days after adjournment it continues to appear as a supplement containing the oratorical leftovers of the session. Into it are also rammed members' undelivered speeches ("extension of remarks"), newspaper articles, addresses by outsiders ?a wordy overflow for campaign purposes...
...only a week off and the Republic's bravest champion, pale ascetic former Chancellor Bruning, was vigorously campaigning, attracting the most enthusiastic crowds he has had in years wherever he spoke. Left-wing Socialists, his adversaries for years, were ready to vote for him to stop either von Papen or Hitler. Most observers rated his chances slim for next week, but by no means out of the German political picture...
...other kind of shots. Vines counted a point every time he made the shot, a point against him when he did not, ten points a game. Even in important matches, Vines, if he gets a set or two ahead and is reason ably sure of winning, will stop trying for points, try to improve his shots. The best scoring shot in his game is his smash ; he hits overhead from any part of the court. His forehand has very little top spin. It crosses the net low, usually lands very near the baseline...
Through wars, panics and the Fire, Chicago's Board of Trade, world's largest grain market, has never closed since it was founded in 1848 on the same day that the city passed an ordinance to put a stop to "horse racing and careless shooting on Chicago's principal streets," But last week a commission composed of President Hoover's Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary of Commerce and Attorney General, tried to throttle the strident voices of the Pit by ordering it to suspend all trading in grain futures for 60 days from Aug. 7. Basis...
Even Perkins by this time was ready to stop waiting in the locker-room. He joined the crowd that was waiting at the 18th green to watch Sarazen play his 286th shot, an 8-ft. putt. It was a noisy crowd, impatient to cheer Sarazen for equaling Bobby Jones's unique feat of winning the British and U. S. Opens in the same year. The crowd swarmed over the traps, over the edge of the green, past the course marshals until there was only a tight 20-ft. circle around Sarazen and his ball. Perkins tried to look over...