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Word: stay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation is one which the football coach does not often encounter. Instead of beseeching his men to keep off pro to stay in college he has to beg them to neglect their work to accomplish the same end. Public spirited members of the faculty are wondering why on earth they gave that football man an A instead of an E. The student body is holding informal parties in the rooms of the erring football men in vain attempts to lower the abominated high grades. Everybody, with three exceptions, is doing his best to remedy the disgraceful situation. Meanwhile the three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVEREMPHASIS | 3/28/1928 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania Coal Co., in whose No. 6 mine the feud started, agreed to reopen the mine, which had been closed for two months, to give idle hands peaceful occupation. The idle miners met, voted to stay idle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Anthracite | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...indication of life. . . ." Frye was placed in a rocking chair. Mrs. Eddy stood over him, in the stuffy room, and said loudly: "Calvin, this cause needs you. Mother needs you and you must not leave. . . ." Frye at this supplication, wriggled and whispered: "I don't want to stay, I want to go." The next morning Frye was about his "mother's" business in the household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Scientists | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...familiarity to grow up between children and father and mother. That point can be determined experimentally. I think it is not longer than two or three weeks, anyway. Therefore, I should never let a mother handle her child longer than three weeks, and I should never let a nurse stay longer than three weeks. . . . This question hasn't anything to do with companionate marriage or marriage at all. It has to do with the bringing up of youngsters and making them as independent of people and things as they ought to be." For ten years Psychologist Watson experimented with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Three-Week Parents | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Count von Luckner arrived in Boston yesterday and during his two day stay he has four lectures listed with full houses assured for all of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 250 UNION MEMBERS TO HEAR "SEA DEVIL" SPEAK | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

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