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Word: stops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just how can a porpoise suffer from scurvy, or did a translator, looking up "Meerschweinchen" (guinea pig) stop at "Meerschweinchen" (porpoise) and let it go at that? The error is so ancient (if this surmise is correct) that I am surprised TIME should have been caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1932 | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

Hardly had Mr. Baker's boat passed through the Narrows before speculation began to fit him into the 1932 Democratic puzzle picture. His friends liked to depict him as a rallying point for the "Stop Roosevelt" movement. He was also envisioned as a compromise nominee after a possible deadlock between Smith and Roosevelt forces on the convention floor had spent itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Mr. Baker & a Ghost | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

Shanghai, China, Feb. 1--Harverimplymp. Chiang Kaishek missing stop cannot locate Chinese capital stop urge send Huey immediately stop signed associated press Shanghai stop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Flung Huey, The Cooney Oriental Leaps Into Limelight | 2/3/1932 | See Source »

...Juana, Mexico, Feb. 2--Leaving for San Francisco in hour stop none your business what doing Tia Juana stop wire fifty dollars care Chungking laundry San Francisco stop refuse cover Manchuria too cold stop advice urge Stimson urge Italian embassy. Washington urge Mussolini not protest stop gravity situation exaggerated stop war put Japan on copper standard stop dispatch today states Harbin Chinese lose five hundred, Japanese ten stop Japanese cant hold out long that rate stop Chiang Kaishek probably in new capital stop advice look west of Nanking stop didnt know there was Chinese navy stop will wire all developments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Flung Huey, The Cooney Oriental Leaps Into Limelight | 2/3/1932 | See Source »

...Juana, Mexico, Feb. 2--Wire ball two hundred dollars Chinese consul refuses cooperate Huey and associated press stop signed Escuadero police section stop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Flung Huey, The Cooney Oriental Leaps Into Limelight | 2/3/1932 | See Source »

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