Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...termer can lose "copper" (prison cant for earnable credits in the form of reduced actual time spent in prison). The lifer, by the very nature of his sentence, cannot lose anything of that kind because he is already doing "life." Misconduct can extend a lifer's prison stay by years, while it seldom costs a termer more than 30 or 60 days as punishment for rule infractions. Furthermore, because of the very indefiniteness of his imprisonment, he realizes, if he has a modicum of intelligence, that he is the fellow most likely to become "stir-simple," a malignant disease...
...have taxed locally people of the City of New York to meet the current expense of unemployment.* I don't wish any other Mayor to do it if he wishes to stay in office. It has got to be done some way or another. We don't expect the local government to do it all. . . . We have developed a new kind of officeholder -'the semicolon boys...
...Deal but the U. S. Treasury was the sufferer. Lawyers foresaw that the revenue from processing taxes, shrunken to a rivulet since legal battles began, would now dry up completely, stay dry until and unless processing taxes are found legal...
...stay home from Princeton to go to a Saturday class at nine. He envied all the lucky brighties, but he clung fast to his duty. The teacher, however, wasn't there at seven minutes after nine. Disgust was mingling with resentment in the young man's soul, when in walked the instructor at quarter past. Said he, "Well, fellows, now that you've all shown up you can all go home. There won't be any class today...
...hope of the Council that embargoes include loans and credit, copper, cotton, and minerals. The object of the campaign is to stay out of war, not to remain neutral. Neutrality implies freedom of the seas, but by such legislation, the demands of neutrality are relinquished and peace is the only objective...