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Word: stops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Enlai, and drove to the Soviet Embassy. He entered the Embassy with an interesting box, came back to his car without it. Fledgling plainclothesmen got their ears scorched when they reported his visit. "Ai ya!" groaned a Chinese detective superintendent, "Why didn't you pretend a collision, yell, stop the car, claim, the box-anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Dr. Lo's Feeling | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Last year there was one divorce for every three U.S. marriages. What can be done to stop this breaking of families? In last week's Christian Century, Dean John Warren Day of Grace Cathedral (Protestant Episcopal, Topeka, Kans.) proposed a few remedies that he would like to try out. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: How to Save the Family | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...federal divorce law, to stop the easy divorces now obtainable in some states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: How to Save the Family | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...weeks the Varsity soccer team has blasted assorted aggregations of mediocre booters from Boston and vicinity, but the days of larks and pushovers stop today at the Business School Field. At 12 o'clock Coach James MacDonald's once-beaton team meets Princeton's runing, hard-checking soccer squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Booters Meet Nassau Today; Princeton Downs J.V Eleven, 27-14 | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...Stop-Music. In Los Angeles, Virginia Ferstead, whose neighbors had been complaining, complained to the police on her own account: somebody had glued down all her piano keys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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