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Word: stops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning, one at lunch, two in the afternoon, one at night. A sound truck with a 25-record library precedes him. Another accompanies him to broadcast his speech which lasts only 40 minutes, is always the same. Each of the three candidates by the time they stop touring next week, will have covered all the towns with over 500 population, in Florida's 67 counties. Driving between towns, diligent Candidate Sholtz makes a practice of stopping at every filling station, general store, to distribute his own campaign literature. Negroes cannot vote in Florida Democratic primaries bub whenever Dave Sholtz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Pepper v. Sholtz v. Wilcox | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...through a controller which governs the voltage and current so that the fence will shock livestock without injury. A survey Idaho took two years ago showed that the State's farmers are turning more & more to electric fences, are finding new uses for them. Among them: 1) to stop hogs from rooting under woven-wire fences; 2) to prevent animals from raiding chicken houses at night; 3) to keep cows in adjoining pastures from nosing each other, thus preventing the spread of Bang's disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Hot Wire | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...third inning Lupe started a three run rally by singling, Grondahl and Dave Shean followed with clean hits and scored as Johnny Quinn, B.U. short-stop, bungled Joe Soltz's grounder. Doubles by Lupien and Shean coupled with a pass to Grondahl in the seventh brought in two more runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terriers Slug Four Varsity Moundsmen | 4/29/1938 | See Source »

Ellie Bacon played his first game this season yesterday behind the plate. His only other Varsity appearance was last year on the spring trip. . . . A thrown bat by Quinn after the B.U. short stop grounded out in the seventh struck Umpire Johnny Mullen in the knee, incapacitating the arbiter for several minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terriers Slug Four Varsity Moundsmen | 4/29/1938 | See Source »

What the growers wanted James Morrison to do was stop the chains from using strawberries as loss-leaders to get customers into their stores. First thing he did was to forbid buyers to use the Hammond Auction for anyone but their own chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Strawberry Kingfish | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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