Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outbox him in the second until, when the round was more than half over, Schaaf landed the blow that really settled the fight. This was a short right uppercut which caught Poreda squarely on the jaw, landed him on the ring floor so suddenly that he forgot to stay down for a count of nine...
...circuitous route. It took Stanley two years, cost him 23 bouts of tropical fever, cost Bennett a pretty penny, but Stanley got his man. Every continent chuckled over his famed greeting. Said Stanley: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Livingstone refused to be taken home in newspaper triumph, preferred to stay in Africa, but he gave Stanley letters to prove his feat...
...Turned down professional offers for two years to stay in training for the Olympics. Overcame the handicap of poverty represents the unconquerable spirit of the first generation of Americans of which...
...watching adroit impersonations by the male members of the cast. Leslie Howard is Tom Collier. In response to a comment on the cold weather, he says, "I think we'd better bring the brass monkeys indoors tonight," so smoothly that the Hays organization allowed the line to stay. William Gargan is Collier's ex-pugilist butler. Funniest scene is when Gargan, drunk, tries to get up courage to resign while Collier tries to get up courage to discharge him. Mr. Rothafel selected The Animal Kingdom as the first attraction at the RKO Roxy theatre, which opened its doors...
...University of Michigan. Said he: "Every few days there comes to my office the report of some student who is living in an attic on $1.50 a week, on milk and bread or crackers, with an occasional can of beans. . . . It would be better if they would stay out a year with the hope of earning enough to support themselves decently in school at some future date...