Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sarah Gibson Blanding recognizes the importance of "home economics" and "budgeting" [TIME, Dec. 22], let her educate her girls and stop revising men's college curricula. Some attention to simple arithmetic would be a fine start. I have a Vassar wife and I know...
After shouts of "grab that man" and "stop them" arose, Harper and Thalhofer decided that they were not going to let possible dividends slip away so easily...
...must ask you, Madam," said the Muse of History, "to stop dancing up & down on this roof. These old palaces are scarcely more substantial than you ghosts. I am glad to see that Marxism has had the same psychotherapeutic effect on you as on so many neurotics who join the Communist Party. But your notions about Russia and Stalin are highly abnormal. All right-thinking people now agree that Russia is a mighty friend of democracy. Stalin has become a conservative. In a few hours the whole civilized world will hail the historic decisions just reached beneath your feet...
John Bunyan, whose great work is as famed as Richard Hooker's is obscure. The zealous tinker, who won his youthful struggle against the sins of swearing, Sunday afternoon games and dancing, spent twelve years in the filth and squalor of Bedford jail for refusing to stop his "unlicensed preaching." But it was probably during a second, briefer imprisonment, in 1675, that he "fell suddenly into an allegory" and produced his well-known work, Pilgrim's Progress...
While too union officials admitted that "We can't stop them," the Harvard University Band continued negotiations with Capitol and Disc record companies to transcribe albums for nationwide public sale...