Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winthrop, which has already played five games, stands in first place, but if Dudley wins this afternoon, the two teams will be tied. Kirkland has already been tied once, by the fifth place Funsters, and if the Deacons win Winthrop will stay unchallenged...
...TIME for Oct. 9, your interesting account of submarine warfare leaves me a bit puzzled. As a civilian ... I have held for some time the belief that submarines are able to stay submerged only so long as they maintain active forward motion with motors running. And yet . . . you state that the "usual maneuver is to sit on bottom, motors off." By this do you mean that such submarines are stuck fast in the mud of the bottom or that submersion with motors off is possible regardless of the circumstances...
...signs that President Roosevelt gave last week, he might not have known that the Senate was still engrossed in its Great Debate. Neither oblivious nor negligent, Mr. Roosevelt was simply complying with the admonition laid down by his Senate strategists, Key Pittman and Jimmy Byrnes: "Stay out of the Neutrality fight." By staying out, he exhibited a restraint remarkable for him, regrettable for Senate Isolationists, who would welcome nothing more than a rousing White House scare to scare off Administration votes...
...voice protested at first, when the Pittman neutrality bill proposed to shackle U. S. citizens with 3,500 words that added up to "Stay home under penalty of the law." But loud was the squawk from the shipping tycoons when they found that the bill would straitjacket U. S. shipping into immobility. While Washington wits called Nevada's Key Pittman a Thalassaphobe, and hinted the next step would be to make offshore swimming illegal, ship lobbyists got busy on sympathetic Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina (TIME...
...Came to Dinner (produced by Sam H. Harris), George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart had a smash hit on their hands. Tale of a famous lecturer who goes to a dull dinner-party in an Ohio town, gets hurt, and has to stay on in the house for weeks, the play's wit is as gleamingly cutthroat as its antics are gorgeously custard-pie. The identity of the lecturer is as open a secret as the fact that George Eliot was a woman. Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) is an unexpurgated version of Alexander Woollcott, who has been a friend...