Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight the Yale Daily News politely declined Governor Cross's invitation. The News assured its readers that "the best men will stay out of politics. It's just too dirty...
...been blind since boyhood. This did not prevent him from graduating from University of Pennsylvania with honors in engineering or from designing most of the company's patented machinery. Tall, gaunt, he spent the War years working in a shipyard. The ship company tried to persuade him to stay with them but he was loyal to piston rings and returned to Hagerstown. He is sensitive about his blindness, walks alone to work each day without a cane and often goes for a stroll through the factory...
...Insull: Well, if it blows up the whole company will blow up and I'll blow up too, so I might as well stay here...
Lucy Moore, whose self-satisfaction will not stay put, demands more rarefied satisfactions than her rather commonplace virtues can provide. Though she loves her husband well, she yearns to improve him so that she can love him even more. To teach him hospitality she invites Cousin Anna, against his protest, to their home. Anna's free-&-easy behavior soon makes Lucy forget her dreams of hospitality. She dreams of her husband's possible infidelity instead. Her perverse dread alienates him. When Lucy drives Anna from the house he goes with her. In the ensuing pursuit he is drowned...
This withdrawal necessitates a rearrangement of plans, if there is to be a meeting with Yale. Attempts are being made at present to arrange a double contest with Yale, in which case the Crimson negative team will meet Yale in New Haven and the affirmative will stay in Cambridge...