Word: staying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...races ran foot races toi gether, feasted together, laughed, gossiped. There was a baseball game for Negroes only. The chief white speakers, H. A. Alsobrooks and John Rigden, agricultural agents for railroads, lauded the Negroes for their thrift and industry, urged them to buy more farms and stay in the South. The Rev. J. R. Cason, Negro, replied that the Georgia white man is the Negro's best friend, even though there have been occasional misunderstandings...
...jailyard to get air. The boys can fish in the river if they feel like it, or sometimes they play pinochle or baseball. . . . Once the boys sat up on the front porch of the jail, but they threw too many cigaret stumps* about, so my wife made them stay in the yard. Then they went up on the porch of a neigh bor to sit, but I soon stopped that and told them they must stay around the jailyard. None of them has ever made an attempt to escape." Federal officials, shocked, planned to investigate Sheriff Jackson's jail...
...melting pot." The Noyes wrapping for this household article is "new united Europe." He defends the U. S. delay in entering the War by picturing U. S. polyglot population as a sturdy band of folk collectively dismayed and none too impressed by the quarrels of their stay-behind cousins back in Europe. He soothes Revolutionary rancor by embracing Washington, Franklin, Hancock, et al., as Englishmen and even appeals to the Empire spirit of Britons by revealing a bevy of immigrant children singing "My Country "Tis of Thee" to the same tune as "God Save the King." He reminds England that...
Planned for seven years, built in three, the blimp, 94 feet long with a fancied resemblance to the Los Angeles, had been intended to stay up indefinitely. Those who watched it careen over Times Square, veering in the wind, agreed that indefiniteness had characterized the flight...
...last week, Inventor C. Francis Jenkins of Washington, D. C., offered another scheme, whereby a pilot would need to peer no farther than the dashboard in his cockpit to stay on his course. Inventor Jenkins proposed to equip land lighthouses such as those now winking over the Alleghenies with automatic radio transmitters, each unit costing only $250 and manageable by the present lighthouse attendants. Each station would broadcast on a short wavelength measured to light up a wireless light bulb in the cockpit of a passing plane. Darkness, fog, rain, sleet or snow have virtually no effect on radio waves...