Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everyone knows, Minseito Premier Baron Wakatsuki opposed but was unable to stop the Army's plunge into Manchuria (TIME, Sept. 28). His successor, the Seiyukai's "Old Fox,'" pandered eagerly to the Army & Navy, but the costly setback at Shanghai forced the Foreign Office to negotiate what the fighting services were bound to consider a "disgraceful withdrawal" (TIME, May 16). This, though not the fault of the "Old Fox," led him straight into a trap of Japanese swashbuckling hysteria which cost him his life last week...
This is the Vagabond's present existence, but he must stop writing about it now. The hour grows late and he must eat as other men do. Besides, as the sun plunges into the west, so, at the same time, the moon surges up in the east, and he must go and do as other...
...Fleishhacker's conception of fun is incongruous for a banker in so high a post. It is not limited to loaded cigars. Commonplace are such incidents as the time when Banker Fleishhacker encouraged two of his vice presidents to engage in a wrestling match, let all business stop, cheered first one and then the other until he was as exhausted as they...
...wants, lad, it's what tha's got to do." At 14 he wants to earn some money for his family, but he has got to become a coal miner to do that. Down into the pithead goes Danny among the sooty veterans who, when they stop to think, curse the darkness into which they have been born. There is a certain amount of camaraderie below the ground, but these undergroundhogs are mostly swine above...
...more serious than the paragraph above would indicate. Dangerous accidents are happily rare, but they do happen, and can be partly attributed to the confusion caused by a medley of traffic lanes. Around the subway kiosk the constant presence of parked cabs, and the buses and street cars which stop there, make it an especially dangerous point. The autoist himself is in an unenviable position. Having voluntarily relinquished the use of an auto because of its inevitable annoyances at Harvard, I can speak for both motorist and pedestrian on this point...