Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handle their circulars without putting them to the expense of addressing. They wanted to dump into any post office great bundles of circulars for which they would pay the usual rates. Each letter carrier would have been given a bundle with orders to leave one circular at each stop on his route. Overburdened postmen would have stooped even lower under this enormous new load. Declared Postmaster General Brown, rejecting the proposal: "There is no provision of law authorizing the acceptance of unaddressed matter. . . . [It] would place upon the Postal Service the responsibility of selecting the particular individuals to whom...
...Winding through heavy Sunday traffic back to the Capital, President Hoover saw an automobile careening dangerously toward him, swerve by. He heard a loud crash. He told his chauffeur to stop, got out, went back along the road, found that the White House machine in which his Secretary Lawrence Richey and other friends were riding had been smashed by an automobile driven by a Mrs. Carolyn Lone Beach of Brooklyn, N. Y. None was hurt. The President drove...
...engineering at Colorado Agricultural College (1893), surveyed Cameron Pass over the Great Divide, has done much irrigation work. He entered the U. S. Reclamation Service in 1902, rose to be its chief engineer. Bald and bespectacled, he is a genial, easy-going engineer, never too busy or hyperefficient to stop and talk to friends or strangers. He will supervise the eight-year Boulder job from his headquarters in Denver...
Large scale advertising (THAR'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS, STRANGER-MILLIONS WILL PLAY) serves both to attract buyers and players. The eloquent Tom Thumb booklet explains: "Passersby see the course, they see people putting-they stop-they lean on the fence surrounding the course-they watch the ball as it travels toward the cup-they scream-they laugh . . . they are fascinated-they want to play-they do play . . . they laugh-they scream-they groan-at last they are playing golf...
...particularly responsive to it because they live in surroundings which stimulate peace of mind, and peace of mind is one of the essentials for the enjoyment of art. . . . People who live in congested centres and have to fight their way through traffic, watch in hand, and have to stop constantly for traffic signals, cannot have the state of mind and of soul which is the best preparation for the enjoyment...