Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have Signor Benito Mussolini call upon her at her out-of-the-way little part-of-a-palace; to have him stay nearly an hour and quite unbend; to have him say gallant, flattering things and laugh his infectious laugh-such not long ago was the reward of a U. S. widow, Mrs. Henriette Tower Wurts, when she gave her sumptuous, ancient Roman gardens to the City of Rome and threw in $50,000 for perpetual upkeep. She received the double reward last week of an invitation to Edda Mussolini's wedding...
...nature study in various forms, manual training or commercial geography, in its ramifications) in order to satisfy the rules of our colleges and universities that a modern language must be mastered before the candidate is eligible for a degree. The Progressive idea, in its essential features, has come to stay: and the secondary school must solve the problem as the elementary school and the graduate research department have solved...
...English team is practically certain to carry back to England the Flannery Cup, emblematic of international lacrosse supremacy. During its stay in the United States, the team has been defeated only once, by St. John's, in its first game after arriving; and altogether, the visitors have amassed a total of 108 goals, to the Americans' 36. Since there is only one more game to be played in the series, with Brown, it is now impossible for the Americans to retain the trophy...
Also this year from May 6-Sept. 28 will be given the Passion Play performances in Oberammergau. Those planning to attend are warned of a new village ordinance: that none will be admitted to the theatre who have not arrived in town the day before and planned to stay until the morning after, thus contributing two nights' lodging fees. Motorists will find a good new road from Munich. A new Christus, Alois Lang, will succeed Cousin Anton...
...tennis team opened its five-day stay at Norfolk, Virginia by easily out-pointing William and Mary, 9 to 0. In this match, the Crimson players only lost two sets. In the only other match against a college team at Norfolk, Harvard beat the University of Virginia, 7 to 2, taking five out of the six singles matches, and losing but one of the doubles. The feature encounter was that in which M. T. Hill '31, playing first man, defeated C. A. Smith, of Virginia...