Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full term, there are no proctors, no bursarial charges, few lectures and few official sports. Officially an opportunity for extra study and vacation work amidst suitable surroundings, this Long Vac Term is a godsend to the man who has no plans for the summer but does not wish to stay at home. Of six thousand undergraduates some thousand are usually in residence for the Long Vac Term. A few of them work, having failed exams in June which they are to take again in October. Others work because they are made that way. But for most people the Long...
Starting the week after Henley, the Long Vac Term goes on for roughly six weeks. But one may stay for two, three or four as one likes, and it is common to hear an undergraduate say: "I'm fed up with this place. Tomorrow I'm off to Salzburg." Off he goes, with the blessings of his tutor and supervisor...
...Four down when the match reached the 31st hole, Minneapolis' Berg had suddenly won two holes in succession, halved another and dropped a 15-ft. putt on the 34th green for a par 4. Now, if Philadelphia's Vare missed a tricky six-footer, the match would stay alive and chipper little Patty Berg would have an excellent chance to win. Her small, earnest oval face set in serious lines, Mrs. Vare leaned over her ball, tapped it with her putter. When it dropped into the cup, she smiled, walked over to shake hands...
Realistically aware that every war makes its own rules as it progresses, Maryland's Tydings, an A. E. F. Lieutenant Colonel, threw some cold water on his feverish colleagues: "The only way by which we can stay out of war, if this philosophy is sound, is to have no shipping whatsoever. . . . What we do, well intentioned though it is, is apt to degenerate into a set of New Year's resolutions, which will be broken about as soon as war is declared...
...black and white souls, are to flee into the environs. When they hear six cannon shots they are to return home. Finding that many foreign correspondents new to Addis Ababa were queasy about the lepers lounging in the streets, His Majesty ordered lepers to "get out and stay...