Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bitter Choice. Overshadowing this historic problem is the urgently pressing one of Canada's trade crisis. If the Washington talks do not produce healing prescriptions, St. Laurent must administer some bitter doses from his own medicine closet. He might even have to stop all but the most essential U.S. imports to Canada and let Canada live as best she could on her own production and high-priced overseas imports. That course for years to come would deny to Canadians such items as U.S.-made cars and clothes, U.S.-grown citrus fruit, Hollywood movies. Canada would save U.S. dollars...
...internal organs caught the eye. Among the standing features: "Tumor Topics" and "Cancer Quiz." The Bulletin could say anything with enthusiasm. Inch-high type clarioned: "EVERY PERSON HAS A RECTUM . . . Any Doctor Can Examine It." An article on digital examination to detect cancer of the breast was briskly headed "Stop, Look and Feel," and decked with 17 drawings in color. The editors and artists even hit on a way to make a cover design for castration (a palliative for cancer of the prostate). They used a three-color cartoon of a topi-topped explorer cutting off an orchid, laboriously explained...
...medievalism. For some time the Brown campus, with university-owned houses scattered over several Providence blocks, had been easy prey for sneak thieves. In one year they had made 'off with more than $8,000 worth of student property. President Wriston thought that the stockade would put a stop to that...
Bruins figured that the new layout would put a stop to something else: the traditional rambunctiousness of the fraternities. During pledge week last winter, fraternity high jinks ended in one student death, several hundred dollars worth of property damage, and a finger-shaking from President Wriston, who called the fraternities "discriminatory, nondemocratic, and anti-intellectual...
...hours after the 210 top amateur golfers s"et out to decide who would be U.S. champion for 1949, the tournament came to a water-logged stop. Rain beat down on Rochester's Oak Hill course. When play was resumed, it was too dark for Ted Bishop, the 1946 champion, to complete his first-round match-and he bowed early next morning to a Denver schoolteacher named John Kraft...