Word: stair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bargaining began as early as last January, though shrewd, autocratic, old Ed Stair, owner of the Free Press, prevaricated last month, equivocated last week, wound up-an hour before papers were signed-by confessing he was "thinking about taking in Mr. Knight as a partner." This meant that Knight acquired the stock of the paper, but 81-year-old Ed Stair remained as chairman of a board of directors, a majority of whom represented the new owner. For incisive, forthright Publisher Knight there was no hemming & hawing. To the assembled editorial staff announced: "I am contemplating no changes...
Students of Government will be very interested in the collection of propaganda and other documents of World Wars one and two to be found on the ground floor and on the stair landing. There are actual copies of the famous "Pamphlet Raids" over Germany...
Even the New England climate and the exercise of stair climbing were described by the speaker as non-harmful, and it does not hurt the heart to sleep on the left side...