Word: halting
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What sent Dr. Patrick hurrying out of his house, into his flivver and into the night, was a telegram asking him to meet a train at the railroad station. Not many trains stop at Marceline, Mo., least of all the ponderous flier that groaned to a halt this night, dropping off brakemen with lanterns and a worried conductor...
Into the hamlet of Ruiz, State of Nayarit, there glided to a stop last week a funeral train from Los Angeles, Calif., and the Presidential Special from Mexico City. Deft, the engineers of these trains brought them to a halt in such a way that the salon car in which rode President Plutarco Elias Calles came to rest exactly opposite the funeral car in which the body of his late wife had been brought from Los Angeles, guarded by the President's trusted friend, onetime President Alvaro Obregon (TIME, June 13). The President and one-armed Veteran Fighter Obregon...
...CRIMSON sees no reason either to commend or to deplore the results of the ballot. The response reveals that the project was not sufficiently attractive to gain adequate support. Therefore it must submit to at least a temporary halt. There are, however, other avenues of approach to this problem. Eventually there will come a change in eating habits in Harvard University; realizing this, the CRIMSON has tried to prepare for that change. That its essay has not met with success is in no way a proof that its efforts have been misdirected...
...high noon the Vagabond is confronted with the same problem which gave him halt on Monday, for Professor Post at Fogg Museum is continuing his series of lectures on "Florentine Painting of the Fifteenth Century", while Professor Conant at Robinson Hall continues his discussion of Early Christian architecture with a lecture on "Basilicas...
...abort at three months, or was the halt in her menses during the three months due to some other thing, to an unknown cause? It is impossible to say, except that artificial fecundation rarely succeeds...