Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of good jazz which, as Miss Baker says, 'comes right out of genuine urge and doesn't come for money," the boy lived and breathed swing and gradually developed into one of the finest trumpeters in the country. Success and money came rapidly but they could not stop Rick, he couldn't stop; he kept on playing-pushing himself beyond the limits of human endurance. His death was inevitable...
...immense and devastating proportions loomed as the next and perhaps greatest chapter in New England's losing battle with the elements, as authorities, including the W. P. A.'s Harry Hopkins and Ward Shepard '10, Director of the Harvard Forest, conferred yesterday in Boston on emergency measures to stop what may be a conflagration of the entire Connecticut Valley...
...quite willing to grant the outright guarantee against outlaw "quickies" which President Almon Roth of the Pacific Coast Waterfront Employers Association originally demanded. Instead the Bridges union agreed to punish contract violators by suspension or expulsion, to put disputed cases up to five permanent arbitrators, in no event to stop work while the new peace machinery functions. If, as Almon Roth publicly hopes, seagoing unions give similar assurance, the West Coast may be in for an era of unaccustomed labor tranquillity...
...pronoun, the book explains further, is a "stand-in" for a noun; adjectives are "gossips" that "tell on" nouns and pronouns; a verb is the engine that makes the sentence go. Sentences have stop and go signals: a capital letter at the beginning is a green light; a dash, comma, semicolon or colon is a yellow light to make readers hesitate, a period, question mark or exclamation point is a red light. Suggested classroom game: a punctuation court for trying traffic violators: e.g.: "John Jones, you are charged with the serious offense of passing a period." Another game...
...board the non-stop Boston plane with its comfortable reclining chairs. They had been herded to the City, then turned loose to get to Boston as best they could. But there wre no trains, no busses, and boats were solidly booked days in advance. He had been fortunate to get this reservation, having applied just when the airline realized the necessity of four extra sections to each plane. Below was the record of the disaster, two-dimensional shambles where there had been summer homes, a Connecticut River which seemed to extend from New York to Boston...