Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stock market is like a cough", he continued, "at first only irritating the throat very slightly, but gradually getting worse with each successive explosion until it has to stop. In the same manner each drop in the market will lead to another low level, and finally, after the general process of weeding out all uncertain securities has been completed, a rise will necessarily follow...
...come now to Homo Americanus. He works for work's sake, like an artist for art's sake. He does not know when to stop and, in fact, never stops at all, so that the result is bound to be stupendous overproduction followed by world depression...
...Purple Pansies." At 3 a. m. one day last week at Lindbergh Field, San Diego, Pilot Ruth Blaney Alexander joked with reporters before starting on a one-stop speed flight to New York. Said she, "If I crack up, send me purple pansies; I like them best"?and took off into the swirling fog from the Pacific. A few minutes later she was dead. Her Barling monoplane Agua Caliente plowed into a hillside four miles north of the airport. Investigators searching the aviatrix' room found a note to (and revealing that she had been married three months...
WILL KEEP FAITH WITH MY PUBLIC STOP ENCLOSING PREDICTIONS TOMORROW'S BEST GAMES STOP WATCHING JONES BEAT HOMANS SIX AND FIVE TOMORROW AFTERNOON STOP LLOYDS FEELING SICK STOP HERE ARE SCORES-- Yale 76 Maine 0 Dartmouth 64 Norwich 0 Army 34 B. U. 0 Michigan 54 Ypsilanti 0 Michigan 48 Denison 0 Boston College 27 Catholic U. 12 Brown 28 Rhode Island 0 Wm. and Mary 19 Guilford 0 Amherst 19 Vermont 6 Springfield 17 East Stroudsberg 6 Bates 12 Mass. Aggies 0 Williams 32 Rochester 3 (SIGNED) H FLUNG HUEY...
...next series includes the sole monarchy of England before the conquest. An interesting group here is that of coins of Canute, the king of Denmark and England of whom the story is told that he commanded the tide to stop rising...