Word: stay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME'S footnotes stay. The ratio of "ayes" to "nays" with hundreds of subscribers voting: (more than) 20 to 1. Here ends the footnote controversy until TIME-readers taste is altered radically...
...been killed. Last week the ill-guided demonstrations came to a peak in Paris, as the day of death approaches the two Italians. Ten thousand Parisian workers in embattled assemblage decried the execution, maintaining as always, that the men are being made the victims of anti-radicalism. Meanwhile a stay of execution has been given in the light of new testimony and an alleged confession from a Spaniard...
...conference was most harmonious. Said Mr. Andrews: "I am as pleased as a child. I only wish I could stay in England for a year...
...weather on the morning of Tuesday, June 22, made it wholly impracticable to attempt the raising. No diving could be done. The FALCON (salvage tug) had to be moored with her bow over the stern of the S-51 to enable her to stay in position long enough to boost the pontoons sufficiently to make up for the overnight leakage and to maintain them "as they were" until the wind and sea should moderate. The bow pontoons had not yet been boosted when the bow was found to be coming...
...duty, cable ships fly a signal entitling them to the right of way. They need to follow a direct course (if paying out cable) or to stay with lengthy catch (if mending or taking in line). By day the sign is two red canvas globes with a white diamond between them; by night, lanterns hung, vertically, red above, and below, white between...