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Word: stopped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Limited bags are due because the tendency is to stop the barrel when the trigger is pressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...suspect," said Herr Bugammen darkly, "that some of the heroin listed as 'exports' is being peddled in Switzerland. We are going to stop that. We have just arrested 22 suspects in Zurich. Some of them, I regret to say, are young girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Young Girls' Drug | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Government to supply the Prince with a tank in which he can drive pellmell through the streets and so destroy all automobiles, bakers' carts, the officers' casino, the academy, the athenaeum, the university, and all state and private institutions, and kill every traffic policeman who tries to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Speed-Fiend Nicholas | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...AMBITION TO LIVE IN ITALY IN A COLD GARRET WRITE BAD VERSE AND DRINK YELLOW WINE WHEN I'M OLD WOULD RATHER TRAVEL A LOT DOING ODD JOBS THAN BE A DEPENDABLE INGENUE BUT I LOVE THE THEATRE ANYWHERE WON'T MAKE MUCH MONEY BUT MAYBE I'LL WRITE STOP THE UNIVERSE AROUND US A GRAND BOOK A FAREWELL TO ARMS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NOVEL THINK THE MOTION PICTURE A GRAND MEDIUM FOR ART PRODUCING THE MOST COLOSSALLY MORONIC RESULTS STOP MY MOTHER AND FATHER FIGURED MOST SPECTACULARLY IN THIS STORY WHEN. . . ." (Prior to her birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Bridgewater, Somersetshire, 30 houses collapsed. On Bridgewater dam armed sentries tramped in gleaming raincoats to stop enraged farmers from dynamiting the dyke that was flooding their fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Atlantic Cataclysm | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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