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Word: stay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year, world-traveled Author William Buehler Seabrook published Asylum, a vivid description of his seven-month stay in a sanitarium where he was cured of alcoholism. Last week, hearing that Author Seabrook had returned to the sanitarium, a newshawk telephoned his Rhinebeck, N. Y. farm, got an explosive denial. Bawled Author Seabrook: "I'm getting sick of that rumor! Every time anyone sees a tough drunk they say it's me, and I'm sore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 18, 1936 | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...evening singing ballads and playing the violin. She had equipped herself for this career by studies at University of Alabama and Converse College. Later she got into enough Broadway plays to inter est M-G-M in testing her and arrived in Hollywood with two suitcases, expecting to stay a fortnight. She has never been back, either to Broadway or Talladega...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 11, 1936 | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...come like water, and like wind we go". But I will stay a little longer, 'till some fresh breeze fill the Tower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/8/1936 | See Source »

...will have to bear in mind the fact that Italy is slowly manoeuvering herself into a position of dominance in the Mediterranean, and that the Suez and Malta are dangerously near the Fascist axe. The days of the old-fashioned European Alliances and Alignments seem to be back to stay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DILEMMA'S HORNS | 5/6/1936 | See Source »

...Science's sake one afternoon last fortnight four students at University of Southern California started to stay awake as long, as possible. Psychologist Brant Clark and his coworker, Dr. Neil Warren, wanted to clarify the physiological effects of a long period without sleep. After a day or two, attendants had such a hard time keeping one subject awake that they let him go. The other three started to play "Monopoly." They were so irascible that the psychologists deemed it best to terminate the game. After the young men had stayed awake 54½ hours they gave up, plunged into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sleepless Hours | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

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