Word: deadlocker
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...deadlock was avoided when Alden B. Dawson, director of the laboratory, intervened in favor of the ether and issued a form letter suggesting that, in view of the original purpose of the "cold rooms," their use as convenient, oversize Frigidaires for frozen puddings, etc., should cease...
This year's deadlock for the Big Ten title thus became as complete as possible. Both Indiana and Purdue had played much the same schedules. Indiana had split two games with Ohio State but Purdue had split two with Northwestern. Purdue had beaten Ohio State twice but Indiana had done the same thing to Northwestern...
Last week Councilman Bigelow produced a deadlock by refusing to vote either with the four Charterites or with the four Republicans for a mayor, ostensibly because he wanted Cincinnati to get its power from TVA. In vain did the city manager explain that TVA would not be ready to deliver power for five years, that the city already had contracts with private power companies which the electorate had apparently considered satisfactory. To this Councilman Bigelow replied: "It's not a struggle over rates in Cincinnati, but an important section in the great fight of President Roosevelt...
...attack them. Fear of Congress that flexible neutrality would give the State Department a handle to draw the U. S. into war was firmly set against the State Department's fear that an inflexible act would provoke wars in which the U. S. might be involved. Such a deadlock promised to inflame the peace passions of the U. S. Last week the National Peace Conference, a confederation of 30 peace propaganda societies, helpfully offered a draft for a new Neutrality Act. It would give the President not only orders to embargo exports of arms but also optional authority...
Standish and Gore Ball fought to a 4-4 deadlock in the first annual intra-House indoor baseball game among the Puritans. Tom Bilodeau, Varsity baseball man, starred for the Standishites, while Bill Welch stole the spotlight in the ranks of the Gorites...