Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deceiving, for despite the improved condition of France's economy and the marked strides the nation has made toward regaining her pre-war financial foundations, the country is still fairly shaky internally and a glut of recreation-seekers, travelling in the guise of students, may well put a stop to a great opportunity...
...thin dime and one subway stop away from the Yard, the 13-year-old Cambridge Police Station is as sensitive to Veritas vibrations as University Hall itself. Situated within whistle-distance of Central Square, the triangular four-story building is home base for a force that has worked hand and stick with the University Police since 1846 maintaining a Widener-like order throughout the College. With a reputation for knowing the student better than does his dean, the 214-man force keeps its headquarters informed on everything from Mt. Auburn pinball machines to Boylston Street bookstalls, and not even...
When he finished making Blue Skies, Fred Astaire thought he would stop dancing. He didn't want people to start asking, "What's that old duffer still hanging around for?" But last week the old duffer was hard at work at some new dances in a new setting...
...chosen few will find that they are not traveling around the prewar world, nor in the prewar way. Passengers will not be encouraged to stay ashore overnight in the Orient. And no more can they stop over anywhere they like, catch the next ship that strikes their fancy. Out are such favorite prewar diversions as getting off at Kobe, going by rail and small boat to Korea, then to Peiping to see the Temple of Heaven, then buzzing down to gaudy Shanghai to pick up the same Dollar liner they left at Kobe...
...flat made last year. His more modest effort in the 100 was enough to equal his own previous best, and the previous college record with 52.7. A little less than seven seconds was shaved from the 1934 record in the 200 yard breast stroke when the stop-watch showed 2:27.8 as the versatile waterman hit the wall...