Word: stay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...middle of July and extended through August and September. Some six hundred students, representing over 40 countries and one hundred and 50 different universities, attended them. While the courses were so arranged that students could arrive and leave practically at their own convenience, it was intended that they should stay at least two weeks, and as an actual fact a great many remainded for four, six and eight weeks...
...coming summer is very similar to that followed last year. Courses will begin the 12th of July and continue through the meetings of the League of Nations Assembly in September. Students may come at any time during the summer. There is one Innovation however. Students who can stay for two weeks or more may be admitted to a special discussion group for the intensive study of particular problems. Those who cannot stay so long and all others interested in the courses, including faculty members, will attend the regular lectures and discussions...
Further, and in close accordance with the Gospels: "Now, it was his habit to stay most of the time on the Mount of Olives, before the city, and there he also avouched his cures to the people. And there gathered themselves to him one hundred and fifty slaves, and of the populace, a crowd. But when they saw his power, which could accomplish everything he would by word, they urged him that he enter the city and hew down the Roman soldiers and Pilate and rule over us. But when knowledge of this came to the Jewish leaders, they gathered...
...perfect start. Johnson on Bubbling Over was out ahead from the eleventh post position; he wouldn't be able to stay there long. Canter and Display, the horses that had been giving the starter such trouble, were running on each side of Pompey. Recollection swerved almost to the outside rail but he was behind the field and there was no interference. They broke at the turn; the thud of their racing-plates sounded incredibly loud, a prolonged piratical drum-roll, in the silence that replaced the crowd's first roar...
...came in his Senior year. His best mark up to that year was 158 feet, yet in his last year he threw consistently 175 to 185 feet; this last mark which he set at Bowdoin College is the college record. His improvement was also marked in his ability to stay in the circle with two or three turns. I have often seen him take three turns and still have from 12 to 18 inches to spare from the front of the circle...