Word: stay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shift from bow to stroke caused him some inconvenience at first. He managed, however, to send the eights ahead with about the same amount of rythm as his rivals for the position and he may accustom himself to the shift if he is given a slightly longer stay in the stern. Harrison has been rowing at stroke for nearly a week and his success at driving the crews marks him as one of the strongest of the many contenders for the berth...
...townsfolk had told him this was the summer home of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow; that the blue-shirted rustic hoeing in the garden was Caretaker Hubert O. Grant. Quietly the young man approached the caretaker, spoke: "Good morning, sir. I'm sick. The doctor has told me to stay outdoors. Can you give me a job?" As down-Easters will, Caretaker Grant answered in few words, nodded, handed the young man a shovel. "Dig there," he said. The young man dug. He planted sod. He transplanted bushes. For three days he worked diligently...
James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, has been twanging a harp during his stay on the Adriatic isle of Brioni. Last week he was in no mood for twanging. Reason: it was reported that Mrs. Tunney, convalescent from an appendicitis operation (TIME, May 20) must soon undergo another for stomach trouble...
...highways and hedgerows of the U. S., as well as the fashionable avenues, have been combed to find a bishop coadjutor for the Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania. Four were asked, four refused. Rector Henry Knox Sherrill of Boston's Trinity Church preferred to stay in Boston. Bishop Edward Makin Cross of Spokane, who was supposed to have relations in Philadelphia who would make that city attractive to him, preferred to stay in Spokane. Rector Russell Bowie of Grace Church, Manhattan, declined next, and then Dean William Scarlett of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis. The situation was beginning to suggest...
...meeting of Harvard and Princeton undergraduates on Yale soil to bury the hatchet. The suggestion is not new. It was proferred by the Yale Student Council at the time of the break. It might still succeed on one condition: that it be an undergraduate meeting. Let the alumni stay home and cut paper dolls. Yale Daily News