Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor George L. Baker of Portland, Ore. Large, breezy, beetle-browed Mayor Baker lost no time in making himself the personage of the party. He wore a 10-gallon hat, was elected chairman of the delegation, gave out the big interview during the party's two-day stay in Manhattan. Excerpts: "It may seem like taking a ham sandwich to a banquet, but you'll notice that all of us who have wives are taking them along, too. The party is sure to be dignified and the ladies may lend some grace to an otherwise motley assemblage...
...breakfast while Edgar Denison rigged the boats and returned to the boathouse about 11 o'clock for the workout, which consisted of limbering up and racing starts. Another row was held late this afternoon, the shells being left in the shelter at the start of the course, there to stay until they are sent away by referee T. H. Briggs of Princeton at 6.30 o'clock...
Those who return with no practical cares romp through a week, hard on their endurance but furnishing enough nervous excitement to carry them along, and return to their homes tired. But they gain experience in their short stay in Cambridge which is valuable in the formation of an understanding that though the fundamentals of college are ever the same, undergraduate life is constantly changing and has left them out-of-date...
...these doomed villages that tried to get the Supreme Court to stay the hand of New York. It was the State of New Jersey, fighting to save its stake in the now of the Delaware. Seeking an injunction against New York, its attorneys had pleaded for a strict application of the common law doctrine of riparian rights forbidding diversion from one watershed to another. But the Supreme Court, overruling this argument, decreed, in effect, that domestic municipal supply is the highest and most important use to which interstate water...
...true U. S. fences, the hazards of a nation of timber-jumpers. It was boggy in the standing land and treacherous in the hollow. Bunching himself for a takeoff, Hubar slipped and his front legs crashed into one of those top rails no horse can take out and stay on his feet. Now Davis was taking off Sea Soldier's wraps and the lean horse stretched out on the flat three jumps from home and passed Reel Foot. The two horses converged at the water, and then the thing that happens so often when a tired horse is taking...