Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recommended a $70.5 million slash in CAA funds, which would mean that after July 1 CAA could no longer maintain airport control towers (except in Washington). Its program for modernization of navigation aids would be cut in half. Observed the committee: "Air accidents will only be eliminated when people stop flying...
Matt Davidson, who coaches the Nassau nine, will use either Wolcott or Joo Carpenter against Dolph Samborski's charges. At Princeton last Saturday, Wolcott turned in a three-hit shutout to stop Harvard 1 to 0, defeating Reilly, who limited the Orange and Black to five base hits and fanned 11 Tigers. Reilly is definitely slated to start for the Varsity...
...Harvard scene, the 1910 graduate found, gives an immediate and striking impression of tenseness and worry. "Nobody ever seems to stop working. It was certainly not like that in my day," he said, suggesting that students now are representatives of a new "Worried Generation." "I don't mean to suggest," he smiled, "that there isn't plenty to worry about...
Tobacco sales were down to about half of normal. Hundreds of Britons had stopped smoking and thousands evidently wanted to stop. London's Daily Mail, which published a tongue-in-cheek account of a man's being hypnotized into a distaste for smoking, was swamped with letters from readers who wanted to be hypnotized too. Wrote an Evening Standard contributor: "Many have found that gargling with silver nitrate, swallowing bicarbonate, or well coating the palate with toffee or chewing gum are strong discouragements-to the extent that smoke can then be inhaled only at the risk...
...McHugh's just-published The Blue Hen's Chickens. What probably shocked Sumner (though he didn't say): an octet of pornographic love poems, "derived" from a translation of Catullus. To Sumner's charge, Random House's joke-collecting President Bennett Cerf (Try and Stop Me) cried: "Absurd!" But Publisher Cerf was not all indignation. "Maybe," he mused, "it will help good poetry get some sales...