Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a small but select group of internationalists gathered at Adelaide for the fourth and last stop on the annual world tennis cruise. Competitively, the company was fast. Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm and Henner Henkel, U. S. doubles champions, were ending a barnstorming tour of Australia that had been preceded by a barnstorming tour of Japan. Donald Budge and Gene Mako, All-England doubles champions, were winding up a two-month Australian series of exhibitions and competitions...
...fleet on its biggest battle, seemed to grow younger, prettier, less communicative. When Milagritos' cousin was sentenced to be shot, Mr. Witt raced to save him, although he had always been mildly disturbed by Milagritos' affection for the boy. But when he finally had the power to stop the execution, he remembered little ambiguous remarks Milagritos had made, wondered if her cousin was her lover. A terrible creeping apathy left Mr. Witt sitting by, inert, trembling, preoccupied, while the cousin went to his death. Then, to square himself with his conscience, Mr. Witt had to believe that Milagritos...
When the Yale Daily News attained the age of sixty a few days ago, its editors contented themselves with printing President Roosevelt's "hearty congratulations," the Vassar Miscellany's "AVID INTEREST IN YALE DAILY NEWS STOP THINK ITS SWELL PAPER," and nineteen other testimonials. Rejoicing took the place of retrospection, and the editors never asked themselves if three score years had proven college journalism to be worth the candle...
Similar cases were cited by dozens. This washing in the press of dirty Communist linen strongly suggested that, even though the Dictator may continue his own purge of Red bigwigs, public sentiment has made it advisable to put a stop to local imitators. Under Stalin's instructions, a vigorous roundup of small-fry purgers began. Jumping in to lend the Dictator their prestige, justices of the Soviet Supreme Court exhorted the lower courts and the Secret Political Police to join forces in a nationwide campaign to "Purge the Purgers...
Steaming at 15 knots the Leviathan will make a ten-day non-stop voyage to the 1,500-acre naval base off the little village of Rosyth to be scrapped. Sole passenger will be an auctioneer, housed in the Imperial Suite, listing her furnishings for public sale. Costing, with repairs and rebuilding, over $30,000,000, the Leviathan was sold to Sheffield and Glasgow metal firms for $732,000, plus an estimated $40,000 for the journey to the scrap yard. At the helm of a big ship for the last time, Captain Binks lamented: "I know ships...