Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the test, Ben Kelsey took the ship East, stopped 22 minutes at Amarillo for fuel, lost another 23 minutes at the gas pit in Dayton. When he whipped over Mitchel Field on Long Island, just as the sun was setting, he was seven hours, 45 minutes (elapsed time) out of March Field, 2,400 miles away, and only 17 minutes slower than Howard Hughes's record non-stop transcontinental flight in a racing plane...
...that he was falling short, he opened his throttles to drag into the field. Without so much as a cough his left engine died. Plowing her wheels through a tree, the XP-38, with right engine throttled, slammed into the sand bunker of a golf course, came to a stop with her right wing torn off, her props hopelessly snaggled, her fuselage twisted (see cut). A passing motorist helped dazed Ben Kelsey from the wreck. He had been only slightly...
...working on a sewer project 100 yards from Dr. Clendening's home. Building a sewer, as everyone knows, usually involves a lot of pneumatic drilling. One day last week the WPA foreman beheld Dr. Clendening approaching. He was brandishing an ax and shouting: "I'm going to stop this thing once...
...build your sewers in Omaha? Why curse me and torture me with your machines and your sewers? I say to you, this damned rat-a-tat-tat, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, must stop! And I am going to stop...
Finally, I should like to protest the relentless definition of Professor Feild as the most successful teacher of fine arts. Anyone familiar with the record of Harvard's department in producing capable graduates would stop to consider. This becomes difficult when people are impatient to "undertake an investigation of the complete fine arts setup...