Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they zipped toward Newton, he eyed the road nervously. Lot of gadgets in this car, must be complicated to handle. Look out! A car in front of them had stopped abruptly. Instinctively he pressed his feet hard on the floorboards and to his and Mr. Yordan's surprise, the Pontiac jerked to a stop. "Funny," mused Mr. Yordan, "I thought I stepped on the gas to go around him." Then he laughed and pointed to the Vagabond's hoofs on the floorboards. "Dual controls," he said softly. "Don't freeze on them again." The Vagabond looked down, and sure enough...
Joseph Stefani, business manager and organizer for the unit, charged that heads of different departments are pushing the rival movement. Asserting too that "we are living up to our side of the agreement," he asked, "why doesn't the University stop...
Although the possibility that anything could stop the Harrison pension remained slim indeed, Mrs. Harrison's friends sprang indignantly to her defense. Ihey denied that she had sought the pension herself, recalled that the resolution had first been introduced by New York's late Representative Theodore A. Peyser at the suggestion of "friends," had passed the House unanimously. Most agreed that Mrs. Harrison could use it. All agreed that she deserved it, for sundry reasons. Among them: 1) she had lived in the White House two years nursing her ailing Aunt Lavinia, the first Mrs. Harrison...
...snicker and laugh. The play dragged on so long that its last six scenes had to be cut because the stagehands wanted to go home. At Sing Sing, where going home is more of a problem, the audience was far more patient and sympathetic, hated to have to stop for dinner. When the moment came to judge the defendant, the prisoners shouted a vociferous "Not Guilty," were rewarded with a happy ending instead of the electric chair...
...sailed the Earl of Dudley and a committee representing Europe's Steel Cartel. Though no one admitted it, everybody knew that the Earl and his friends had visited the U. S. in an attempt to get U. S. steel companies to join the cartel or at least to stop undercutting its prices abroad (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week no one in authority would yet admit that anything had happened, but the Earl's speedy departure indicated that an understanding had been reached. Only Manhattan's Journal of Commerce ventured to outline this understanding...