Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leading at the half, the Crimson cagers were unable to stop the Eli rally in the opening minutes of the second period, and in vain resorted to long shots from the floor to pass the Yale quint...
...directed her to a side street and made her drive into a grove back of the high school. There he told her to stop the car which she did. As he was climbing from the back seat over into the front she opened the door and tried to escape. She screamed frantically and he grabbed her by the throat and choked her. . . . Evidently the Negro thought her screams had been heard. He turned her loose and jumped out of the car. She got back into the car and locked all four doors. When she started her motor he jumped...
...mighty fleet came to a stop, turned its searchlights on the spot. A boat lowered from the Pennsylvania fished out four struggling men who were carried to the hospital ship Relief, where Jesse Hanley Hester, 33, of San Diego, died of his injuries...
...Muffler. Wags have said: "In England everything stops for tea." And contemporary wags have added that British workingmen would stop a revolution for a soccer Cup Final. As the soccer season last week reached a point something like the Fourth of July in U. S. baseball, discussions in pubs and clubs rose to a fine pitch of excitement. Although Brentford, a London club, was leading the First Division, with 14 wins and seven draws for a total of 35 points,† another London club, Arsenal, was widely fancied to end the season...
...Oliver Carmichael thought he knew very definitely what Vanderbilt and Southern education need: money. He proposed that Vanderbilt and Peabody, which have a close working partnership, enlarge their graduate department to give doctors' degrees in at least 15 fields. And he bluntly informed the South that it should stop depending on the gifts of Northern capitalists, should pay its own educational...