Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately suspicious, Chief Boatswain's Mate Karl E. Schmidt commanding the Coast Guard boat CG-145 fired three blank shells as a warning for the fugitives to stop. The warning was ignored. He then turned his searchlight on his laterally striped Coast Guard ensign and fired three shots across the fleeing power cruiser's bow. Still she paid no heed. The next shot pierced the vessel's pilot house. She hove to. Running alongside, Mate Schmidt found she was the Josephine K. out of Digby, Nova Scotia with 500 cases of liquor aboard. Unconscious in the cabin...
...piled up in French banks, more than three times the gold reserve of Britain, not quite half the gold reserve of the U. S. To France's gold nearly $2,000,000 a day has been added during recent weeks. French editors and financiers plotted ways to stop this golden avalanche.* Commented Publisher-Perfumer Coty's L'Ami du Peuple...
...notable, though all of the major projects were under way in the preceding year. Structure such as the west side highway in New York City, the outer drive in Chicago and the super-highways of Detroit indicate that the major city trunk lines of the future will be non-stop express ways probably of elevated construction. There can be little doubt that the economic savings will warrant the development. They offer the most important single step in the urban traffic horizon...
...primary importance the question of attitudes--attitudes of teachers and pupils alike. They realize that school tradition has too frequently conceived the examination as a barrier to be scaled, a hurdle to be strategically vaulted. Rarely does the school boy or the school girl or the college student, indeed--stop to inquire how examinations in English, or in any other subject, may serve as sequent means whereby added power either in communication or interpretation may be systematically and permanently acquired. Teachers who have recognized this potency of a program in recurrent examinations may wisely question how the defence attitude which...
...Blue bird's chassis clears the ground by five inches and the wind resistance has been reduced by changes in streamlining. Fins like a plane's elevators will hold down the rear wheels. It needs three miles to work up to full speed and three miles to stop. By way of training to drive it Capt. Campbell has not had a drink for six months. Said he: "There is no kick in driving 200 miles an hour. You are too keyed up. . . . It's not on the books for me to breathe my last behind the wheel...