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Word: stay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge, four-engined flying boats. Meanwhile, with pursuit ships getting faster & faster, practical, businesslike Glenn Martin laid down another job for his designers. What was now needed, he said, was a bomber that could defend itself against fighters. Since it could no longer outspeed them, its only chance to stay in the air lay in giving it enough maneuverability and fire power to hold its own in aerial combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kites to Bombers | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...thing is absolutely certain and that is that the Syracuse crew will be out for blood as far as Cornell is concerned, and there is every reason to believe that the Orangemen will stay well up in the race. In fact a finish with all three beats within the length of a shell is quite possible...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Crimson Oarsmen Face Grind With Big Red on Lake Cayuga | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

Captain Barker's stay here will be for an indefinite period, probably lasting for two years. After that time he believes he will be returned to active duty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPTAIN BARKER NAMED NEW NOTC PROFESSOR | 5/25/1939 | See Source »

Perhaps "The Edge of the World" will not have the popular appreciation it deserves. The Public, getting wind of a dreary plot in a dreary set, may stay away in droves,--but at their own expense. They will be cutting themselves out of the truest entertainment that has flashed on American screens. Admitted, there is no racy romance, no screwball comedy in "The Edge of the World," but there is emotional strength and intellectual escape. The sterling quality of the film, lifting the audience out of itself, sweeping it on to a dynamic climax, make the picture live...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/24/1939 | See Source »

...Feild must go, the Fogg will stay though condemned by its students. Despite its brilliant exterior, it is a rotting hulk aimlessly floating on a sea of meaningless and unrelated detail. The study of fine arts has become largely a matter of identifying pictures. This is fine for embryo museum experts. But when it comes to aiding undergraduates to relate fine arts to the life and thought of an epoch, particularly the epoch we are living in, the department is inadequate, barren, and moribund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STAGNATION IN THE POGG | 5/23/1939 | See Source »

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