Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spend summers at Sea Bright, N. J. He argued that New York City should get its water from the Hudson River valley, good for another 100 years, and not leap out of bounds to injure other States. Pennsylvania's counsel asked protection against the day when Philadelphia would "stop drinking purified sewage" and draw fresh water from the Delaware...
Finally Siamese are unaffectedly religious, which is not to say good or goody-goody. Buddhist priests in plain yellow robes go from house to house in the early mornings, stop motionless and silent before each door proffering a bowl. If no food is placed in the bowl the priest moves on. If food is forthcoming, as it nearly everywhere is, he hurries with his bowl to the Buddhist monastery, shares with his fellows, devotes the rest of the morning and the day to religious duties...
...Little Rock, Ark., in a hotel H. G. Lansdale of Atlanta, Ark. telephoned the desk clerk, complained that W. U. McCabe. Arkansas State Legislator, was carousing most annoyingly in an adjacent room. Said H. G. Lansdale: "If you don't stop that rumpus I will." Forthwith he stomped into the room, shot and critically wounded Legislator McCabe...
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...Angeles, Frank D. Lovett, 61, drove along a boulevard until halted by a red traffic sign marked STOP. When the green GO sign turned, Lovett's car regained stationary. He was dead...