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Word: stay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University marched for its annual convocation, for a farewell to stumpy, grizzled oldtime Humorist Stephen Leacock (Nonsense Novels). Retiring at 66 after 33 years in McGill's department of political economy, Humorist Leacock cheerfully became an L.L.D. Promised he: "When I go on the shelf I mean to stay there. ... From now on I shall reflect a lot and say nothing." ¶ Pet college of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who went to Harvard for three years, is Ogelthorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.) which in return for financial benefactions and a woodsy tract nine years ago gave Publisher Hearst his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...Everybody said Mahmoud would not stay the course, but by judicious handling I made him stay." This statement was made last week not by Jockey Charles Smirke, who had just ridden Mahmoud to victory in the Derby at Epsom Downs, England, but by the 44th lineal descendant of the Prophet Mohammed's daughter, Fatima: Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah, His Highness the Aga Khan, Mahmoud's haunchy, paunchy brown-skinned owner, who was still waving his silk hat to show his enthusiasm. To balance his excited hyperbole the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Epsom Downs | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...curious change of heart about Government bonds. Instead of predicting the imminent collapse of Government credit through New Deal spending, they are now buying long-term Treasury issues as fast as they can. Government bonds have been pushed to record highs and the bankers are convinced that they will stay there, if not go higher. Some people are even talking of the day when the cautious investor will have to be satisfied with a 2% return on his money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bonds | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Where are they going to live? Where are they going to eat? Is the University able to put them up? Are Harvard Square and its environments adequate to absorb so many? Will the alumni have to stay at Boston hotels and go back there to lunch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Information Bureau Set Up in Straus to Handle Inquiries on 300th Lodging | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...addresses in Cambridge, at any one of which accommodations may be obtained. It is requested that the return postcard be detached and mailed to the Bureau, giving the address where accommodations have been obtained, the number in the party, the method of travel, and the expected duration of the stay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Information Bureau Set Up in Straus to Handle Inquiries on 300th Lodging | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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