Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Damage Without Injury. Immediate aim of the suit, which Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell P. Willkie and his associates had planned as a last stand in the three-year-old legal fight against TVA, was to stop the sale of electricity generated by the three TVA darns already built (including Wilson Dam started during the War and transferred from the War Department to TVA in 1933); to restrict de-velopment of four dams now under construction and a fifth authorized but not yet begun; to prevent TVA from getting Congressional funds for four more dams. TVA attorneys maintained that...
...first stop in the discouragement of wolves from other colleges was taken last May in a meeting of two deans, three secretaries of the college, and two faculty members, in conjunction with the Outing Club and Intrafraternity Council...
Norris Houghton has designed a perfect setting for melodrama, a mid-Victorian living room encrusted with gimcracks and statues, any one of which might inspire crime. But Stop-Over, after a good takeoff, gets bogged in its own dull subplots. Its chief actor, Blackmer, is left stranded with nothing to do but make wry cracks...
...present, he offers only such concrete examples as how semantics enabled him to cure himself of a fear of "snakes," such hypothetical examples as how it might keep a man from committing suicide. In the mind of the would-be suicide, suggests Chase, would occur a semantic Stop-Look-Listen! monolog like this: "This is bad; this is painful, depressing, almost intolerable. But my life, my organism, is a process, always changing ... no two contexts are tho same. . . . Snap out of it, brother, snap out of it! Prepare for the next context...
Former champ Mitchell, contacted last night said that he would make a come-back after mid-years. "And I won't stop at 20," he said. "It's more...