Word: stay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like many another nonspecific magazine, the New Masses solicited contributions, offered prize-money for "the best letter." Like most radical efforts to become and stay articulate, it said it needed more money (but only $5,000) to keep going for three years...
...England, where they could not get over the feeling that they were more or less Colonials in contact with an older and surer civilization. Now the United States is the most powerful nation in the world. . . . There will probably be more American Ambassadors in the future who will stay Americans...
...then his marriage was a failure, though he did not know that it failed because he would have been revolted to find in a fellow aristocrat like Mildred the passion he sought in life. And by then Mildred too was carrying a son of his. They had to stay married...
...meet the Norfolk Country Club, the Richmond Club, and the Country Club of Virginia, its course again turns northward. In Washington the match which was arranged with the Chevy Chase team has been called off because of a conflict in the latter's schedule. The University men will, however, stay in Washington, meeting an opponent of several years' standing, the Dunbarton Court Club...
...streaked, tinged with orange; a strange eel; a phosphorescent deep-dwelling fish; and a score or more of other creatures which no one in the Vanderbilt party was scientist enough to identify, if indeed the specimens were identifiable and not new species altogether. Here was a chance denied to stay-at-home ichthyologists by sea-dredgers of the omniscient and loquacious William Beebe type- a chance to exercise their knowledge by recognizing, perhaps to share the excitement of failing to recognize, strange spoils of the sea; a chance also, when Commodore Vanderbilt publishes his book on the collection, to come...