Word: stay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admission to Harvard continues to increase and the College through necessity continues to raise her standard of scholarship, the boarding school will be able to enter fewer and fewer men, and that those who do succeed in passing their entrance examinations will either soon be dropped out or stay in only because of laborious efforts, which, in most cases will be grudgingly made for the sake of being able to maintain a standing in athletics or other outside activities...
Most of the stories are about Killdee, his wife, Rose, and Missie, the little changeling with the pointed chin, the curving lips, the delicate bluish bloom on black cheeks, who came to stay with them. The blacks live so near the earth their roots go down into it like the roots of trees. Mrs. Peterkin understands these twisted roots, their fumbling, struggling, grappling, and the secret chemistries that work in them? sorrow and wonder, sweetness and regret, life and love and death...
Prof. Baker is at present reading the manuscripts submitted in the competition for the Harvard Prize Play for this year. He will leave soon for an extended stay in northern New Hampshire, following which he will spend six months in Europe...
...close to the last jump of the Steeplechase Course. "Hey," yelled a bobby. "Hey, you there! Get out of that! Get back out of that! You can't go there!" The Baron was taken aback, asked Joseph E. Widener: "Must I get out?" "I think they'll let you stay here," Mr. Widener returned. The policeman was informed of the stranger's identity and withdrew, muttering apologies...
...railroad station, meat for the innkeeping Caesars. Instead they enter resorts under their own power, and proceed to the inexpensive hospitality of the "auto camp." Food they obtain from neighboring farmers, who in consequence are first to defend the camping motor tourist. Moreover, no one wants to stay put anywhere for even a week, and the landlord's toll is apt to be nightly rather than by the week or month...