Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber at Alexander Papanastasiou, leader of the Opposition. M. Papanastasiou, an artful dodger, was not hurt until he threw the chair back at the Government with such violence that he dislocated his right shoulder. Grimacing with pain, he left the Chamber and announced that the entire Opposition would stay out on a protest strike against General Kondylis' ambition to buy 600 million drachmas worth of munitions at a time when Greece faces no threat...
Yale snobbishness is not necessarily an attitude of rankling superiority. It is the snobbishness of indifference. Members of small and congenial groups, whether they be actually superior or inferior, are satisfied to stay within those groups. Any effort to break those bounds by forced congeniality to outsiders is dubbed "Joe College...
...will arrive in Japan where they will be the guests of the Japan Student English Association, sponsors of the conference. Following the conference in Tokyo, the members will be taken on a two-week's tour of southwestern Japan and Manchukuo. All of the expenses of the stay in Japan will be paid by the Japanese organization...
...election in 1905 as a reform mayor of Toledo. In 1913 he was appointed Minister to Belgium; in 1919. Ambassador. He was credited with saving many a Belgian life by persuading Brussels not to resist Germany's Wartime invasion, gained fame by his efforts to stay the execution of Nurse Edith Cavell...
...American Derby ($25,000 added) at Chicago will be run June 9. High Quest is entered in the Belmont Stakes, Cavalcade in the American Derby. Last week Trainer Smith was in a dither, did not see how he "could be in two places at once," thought he would stay with High Quest who, although he will not admit it, is his favorite of Brookmeade's flashy pair of 3-year-olds...