Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Back to Chicago last week from a six-month stay in the Panama Canal Zone went skeptical, inquisitive Professor Alfred Edwards Emerson, University of Chicago zoologist, scornfully denying that he and his family had suffered tropical discomfort. Predictions of insecticide manufacturers that tropical termites will direfully invade the U. S. are absurd, said he, because 1) most of the U. S. is too cold, and 2) fossil termites 30,000,000 years old show close kinship to species now living, so that if these oldtimers could have invaded the U. S., they would have done so long...
ABOUT the time undergraduates begin to use their season football tickets, network radio stars start looking for new penthouses to replace the stuffy old one room quarters they have occupied during the long hard summer when listeners stay home only for the baseball broadcasts. From October on the living rooms of the land are filled with floods of expensive music and a hundred expensive voices that engulf the fireside from morning until night...
...reciprocal hospitality has not been limited to these two housing units. Last fall, the Master of Pierson College invited the faculty of Lowell House to enjoy the facilities of his home during their stay in New Haven over the game week...
...their "tour" with the C. C. C. telling me how much they miss the church services. Some of these boys were "non-churchgoers" before enrolling. Most of the chaplains I know try to make their sermons so interesting and their church services so attractive that the boys hate to stay away. They feel that they are missing something. Of course in every camp we are apt to find someone who has a "crossed-wire" on the subject of religion, politics, etc. I hope that your readers remember that two swallows don't make a summer and that one fanatic doesn...
...things Harvard's the place. Best men in the country here. Too bad we all can't make the top grade. Yet, you know, my tutor says I've still a chance. Two more years is a long time. After next week-end I'm on the books to stay...