Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what any other full-blooded young white man in Jefferson County would have done-shot to kill "the black scoundrel." Three slugs took effect, two in the chest, one in the arm. Willie Peterson, dying, was taken away to a hospital where 100 National Guardsmen were subsequently posted to stop further trouble. Dent Williams was arrested, charged with attempting murder, released under $1,000 bail...
...Durham, famed cathedral town, The Flying Scotsman made an unwonted stop. Nearby lies Seaham, the Laborite constituency which Mr. MacDonald still represents in Parliament, though excommunicated from the Party. As everyone knows, Seaham's Laborite Council has demanded that he resign his seat (TIME, Sept. 7). But the Prime Minister returned to sullen Seaham last week, convinced that he could explain and justify his policies, hoping that Seaham would have him for her own again as a Laborite. Repeatedly Scot MacDonald has exclaimed to his new Conservative and Liberal colleagues in the National Government, "If only I had time...
...resting in a stupor on her couch her husband creeps into the other room of the apartment and kills her. The socialite is temporarily held for the murder. A fingerprint on a whiskey bottle exonerates him. He sails for Europe, reconciled with his wife (Kay Francis) and determined to stop guzzling...
...periods of depression by mildly refrigerating them, hibernating them until society again needs them. The method: Cool the body to about 75° F. Then it would shiver, warm & wake itself up, according to Scientist Herrman. Insulin would inhibit the shivering but cause convulsions. Cooling to 70° would stop the convulsions. Corollaries of the plan: "Hibernation might be prescribed as a perfect cure for a nervous breakdown or any form of neurasthenia. Social historians in their prime might be preserved for a couple of generations to describe to their descendants at first hand the manners of a bygone period...
...family, asked H. A. Johnson, local Red Cross official, for gasoline money. Inquisitive Red Grossman Johnson lifted the engine hood of the automobile, found beneath it no motor. The automobilist explained that he had been towed all the way from New Hampshire. His method: in each town he would stop a motorist, tell him his car was broken down, ask for a tow to the next town where a relative would pay for repairs. Mr. Johnson withheld Red Cross aid. The motorless automobilist immediately got a tow to Santa Barbara...