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Word: stops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought him first to the bipartisanship now so generally applauded. But Senator Vandenberg has set definite limits to the bipartisan policy. "Bipartisanship," he says, covers all U.S. dealings to date with U.N., and U.S. dealings in the several peace conferences. But it stops, and should stop there. It does not extend to the vacillating and contradictory U.S. policy in China-which is now in a state of unanimated suspension-or to the policy in Latin America-now operating in a vacuum created by Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Education of the Misters | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Farmer Barke was not too worried. The rain would stop some time, and the flax and corn would get in all right. He had bred 25 sows for fall farrow to make up for his spring shortage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Rain & Weak Pigs | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Manhattan, the hero's tale of the man who jumped for the bit to stop a runaway horse was re-enacted in modern terms by a motorist named Hugh Kelly. Seeing a taxicab out of control with its driver slumped over the wheel, Kelly swung his own car in front of the cab, eased it to a stop. The cabdriver, victim of a heart attack, was dead by the time an ambulance arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...over 100 at the University AVC chapter's Anniversary Dinner in the Hotel Continental last night that the current task of liberal groups is to "find roots in the neighborhood on the basis of everyday activities so that when you speak up on matters of world policy people will stop to listen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC Gains in 'Grass Roots,' Bolte Claims | 5/9/1947 | See Source »

...drive psychology, but rather an incalculable patience and humor with green men who shoot their seat-slide forward too soon, fail to use leg-drive, or put a foot through the bottom of the shell. He will tell a crew whimsically, "You had two speeds today--dead slow, and stop." And then go on, "You have to keep limber in the hips--it's like sitting on a rolling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 5/8/1947 | See Source »

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