Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minutiae. With no great power except Russia ready to talk disarmament, and with all the others doubting Russia's good faith, the Commission for the 22nd time came to a full stop, spent last week piddling with minutiae...
Several months ago, Dr. John Kunkel Small of the New York Botanical Garden took a train ride through the Mississippi delta, looked out of the window with his knowing botanical eye at the lush growth of the southern swamps. Suddenly he saw something which made him want to stop the train-a swamp full of giant iris such as a Paul Bunyan might have planted. Soon as possible Dr. Small went back to the spot with two botanical friends. The iris grew seven feet tall, like young trees. They bore immense rainbow colored blossoms. The botanists floundered with difficulty about...
...long known the ruins of New Chersonese, an old Greek settlement, near the modern Crimean city of Sevastopol. But they had never found the more ancient site of Old Chersonese which Strabo, famed Greek geographer, described. Two years ago Professor Markevitch, Crimean archeologist, told the Moscow Archeological Society to stop scratching in the earth, to look under the sea for Old Chersonese. Fishermen had told him of a wonderful submarine city off the coast of Sevastopol. Russian scientists set to work soon afterward with divers and giant searchlights, found Old Chersonese 210 ft. offshore. The city stretches extensively under water...
...Dartmouth goal line, but the touchdown was called back on penalty. He threw away another score by trying a pass on the 17-yard line, fourth down, two yards to go. The rest of the afternoon was a bucking match in which two able lines proved their ability to stop two able back-fields. Dartmouth 0, Yale...
...side of the insurgents, read a series of resolutions which he thought would improve the ideals of the society. He called for a backing of the McNary-Haugen bill to make permanent the new Federal bag limit of 15 wild ducks per day. He also wanted to put a stop to the baiting of wildfowling grounds, the use of live birds as decoys. He wanted a Federal limit of eight weeks for the open season on wildfowl...