Word: remain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is to be true, all that will remain of Boston in another fifty years will be a scattered, sleepy, ivy-covered New England town, whose emblem, one imagines, will bear the pathetic words "Sic Transit", and whose old men will have nothing to do but gather on the steps of the hotel in the evening and converse with one another of the city's departed greatness...
...larger number of students. The work done has been necessary and has shown an encouraging progress due to the continuous efforts of the chairman of the committees, but the danger of the Association's becoming a purely executive department must ever be guarded against. This and other problems remain for future cabinets to solve...
...still believe it is possible for India to remain within the British Empire." This conservative phrase was uttered not by Lord Reading, Viceroy of India, nor by Ramsay MacDonald. The words are those of the "wonderworker" Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, now recuperating at the Poona mountain-rosort from the effects of confinement in Yeravda Prison for sedition...
...counsel and admonition I hereby notify you that I decline to visit the parish and congregation of St. Mark's and that my visitation of St. Mark's Church announced for Wednesday, June 11, 1924, is canceled and that the Parish of St. Mark's will remain without Episcopal visitation or ministration so long as you refuse to follow my said admonition and to act in accordance with my said counsel...
...woman (an American) who admits that she was one of the most famous and most gifted operatic stars of our generation has just written and published her memoirs.* She desires to remain anonymous and unrecognized† at present, for her confessions, as she confesses, were set down originally for no eyes except...