Word: remained
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Singing talents could hardly remain quiescent and undiscovered in a time when serenading was popular and Boston had so many pretty girls, and about 1858, a separate Glee Club was formed. This group gave many joint concerts with Pierian, and the two groups would go out troubadoring many times until "the stupid interference of the officers of the law" finally caught up with the customs and broke it for good...
...barrel. If you scoop out 100 of them, you'll get approximately 70 white beans and 30 black in your hand and the range of your possible error can be computed mathematically. As long as the barrel contains many more beans than your handful, the proportion will remain within that margin of error 997 times out of 1,000." The reverse, he maintains, is equally true: a proportion of 7 to 3 in the hand means a proportion of 7 to 3 in the barrel...
...Artie Shaw, who spent many noisy months getting thoroughly divorced from their old mates and thoroughly married to each other (TIME, Nov.11, 1946), decided after 18 months that things were impossible. The trouble, according to a formal announcement of their separation, was just "a disparity of interests"-but "they remain on the best of terms...
Under the will of John Roll McLean, who made the Enquirer "Ohio's bible," the paper was to remain in trust for his heirs,* along with his mines and real estate. But if the paper increased in value to the point where it was out of balance with the rest of the estate, the trustees were to consider selling it. They thought the Enquirer had reached that point; it made around $1,000,000 last year, and the market was probably at a peak...
Producer Sam Goldwyn had his say in the Screenwriter: "What bothers me deeply is why the practitioners of the art have failed, on the whole, to become truly creative artists but rather have been content, in the main, to remain little more than glassblowers, huffing and puffing and blowing up slender ideas-their own or others' -into some sort of shape for the screen. What has happened to fresh; honest, vital, original writing for the screen...