Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whoa, TIME! stay your hand a bit! Dip your pen in the sand a bit. That rhyme about Cervantes...
Jimmie's father was a Northwest lumberman, his mother a slut. When his father was killed Jimmie did not stay home long. He bummed around the lumber country, became a millman, had a good time, made good wages. When he met Pearl he meant to seduce her; instead he proposed. They were settled in their own house and had two children when the trouble began...
...comes to Boston, according to Hultman, he immediately finds that he is being constantly trailed by the police. Any infraction of the law will insure his being locked up. This shadowing prevents the crook's getting a start in the underworld here; it upsets his morale, and discourages his stay. The roving auto patrols which have been almost doubled since Hultman became commissioner last May, place the thug in constant danger of being surprised at work or being picked up as a suspicious character...
...tendency for the intellectual standards of the university to be lowered to meet the capacities of the average student. Also boys of excellent character, though obviously unfitted for scholastic attainments, strain during their whole school life to get into college and then find it most difficult to stay there. The results are that the American universities no longer develop the best minds to their maximum degree, and many men who are not fitted for a scholarly life waste several years in attempting it, and often only succeed in losing some of their self-respect...
...Yale and Harvard who are taking the cruise will sail from Boston August 27 on the battleship Arkausas. The students from Georgia Tech and Northwestern will sail two days later from Hampton Roads on the same boat. The ship will then travel to West Indian waters and after a stay of four days in some port will return to Boston on September...