Word: remained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when they want to go to the bathroom somebody takes them. Their eyes stay shut. Their spirits remain in the astral plane. But that doesn't prevent their bodies from getting off the cots or their stomachs from digesting as usual...
...budgets, paring personnel. An executive shake-up occurred last spring when E. A. Charlton resigned, to be succeeded as active boss of the paper mills by Kraftman Cullen. At a board meeting last month it was decided that Mr. Graustein should resign as president of International Paper Co., remain as head of International Paper & Power, the top holding company. Presumably Mr. Cullen was to have a free hand in paper, Mr. Graustein in power...
George Moore is not included in "Prophets and Poets," for he does not fit M. Maurois' definition. He has moulded no generations. He remained aloof from the public, and the public from him. In all probability George Moore will remain, as Spenser has remained a poets' poet, a novelists' novelist...
Readers who reach this point of Author Santayana's narrative are likely to remain to the end. As Oliver develops intellectually under the stimulus of his father's conversation, he also develops physically in a simple sensuous joy of living under the influence of the sea, of sport, of life on the lovely ship. But as he awakens to the world, Oliver also becomes aware of depths of mystery and misery that lie beneath the summer surface of reality. His father's companion and servant is Jim Darnley, engaging, unscrupulous, intelligent Englishman who has left the British...
...less cerebral 15th Century meant much the same thing, but they might say 'Little by little the cat eateth up the bacon thickle.' or 'Feather by feather the goose is plucked'. . . ." Proverbs as a literary fashion died out with the 17th Century, but still remain the spoon-fed wisdom of the unsophisticated, the crutch for halting orators, the handy rubber stamp of hack-writers cramped for time...