Word: remain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Travelers Aid Society is a Christ-like agency for the troubles of voyagers, especially children, foreigners, young girls, women and feeble-mindeds. Welcoming them, seeing that they get to their destinations safely, that they are returned home promptly if fugitive, that they are properly housed if they are to remain among strangers? such are the society's functions...
With hearts pounding, they read on. If the Beatissime Pater was actually about to set out for the North Pole, he must intend to break tradition that he remain "the prisoner of the Vatican." Should Pius XI take but a step across his threshold, the Catholic world would literally be rocked to its foundation. The next heavy type headline made it appear that not even the excuse of polar exploration was being offered by Pius XI. For it read...
...Meiklejohn divides his platform into ten units, the first of which concerns the size of his projected college. And here in the particular is the first parallel with the plan of the Student Council's committee. For he wants his college to be and to remain no larger than two hundred and fifty in enrollment, a desire, which, as is now rather well known, those who drafted the Harvard report possess. Furthermore, he suggests that the college must be near a large city or university whose laboratories and libraries it can use. The idea of dividing Harvard into small colleges...
THERE is a broad highway in the life of every man, a romance-strewn avenue of happiness. But seldom does anyone in this age of mechanics and materialism dare to remain long on his particular highway. It is much safer and far more profitable to stand on the curb and sell motor cars or lead pencils. So only in the evenings by the hearth fire when the world of skyscrapers and tabloid newspapers and directors' meetings is obscured by thick curtains and a desire for rest and refreshment does courage come--vicarious courage, of course--and the world worn modern...
...purports to supply one in the career of Alan, the hero. What it comes down to is a series of sordid affairs strung together with a certain deftness which is hardly compelling. In flashers, Mr. Woolrich's characters stand out in three dimensions. For the most part, however, they remain the tinsel marionnettes which the author undoubtedly intended them to be in order to gain his distorted effects. He tries to be surprising and clever in his use of words and situations but he too often descends to sheer stupidity like this...