Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also must have been a stunning blow to 560 men of a certain Northern regiment, whose time being expired, refused to stay over for an emergency. Three hundred from the same regiment did stay and, simply because of this, the whole shebang, goers and stayers, were bemedalled...
...wooden part of the counter. I was in a holdup one time in Detroit when a man was cut in half with a tommy-gun and at that time the police told me the only thing to do at a time like that is drop to the floor and stay there...
...will be submitted and officially acted upon at the Stockholders' Meeting in Chicago." Signed to this startling invitation was the name of Walter Paul Paepcke, Container Corp.'s suave, able, young president. Unlike many a chief executive, President Paepcke does not make it a first principle to stay as far away from stockholders as possible. For one thing, he has less reason to make himself scarce. Container Corp. is the biggest maker of paperboard shipping containers and cartons in the U. S. Last year Container earned $1,238,000-its best showing since 1927, which was the first...
...always too hot to pick up conveniently. The food is too heavy. Vodka, the national drink, is simply a form of raw alcohol. Russian wastebaskets are so wide-meshed that everything falls through them. When Russians make beds they never tuck in the bedclothes. Wilson's stay in Russia brought out his U. S. patriotism, made him feel that Americanism was different from everything European not in degree but in kind. After weeks of scarlet fever and quarantine in an old-fashioned hospital in Odessa he was glad to be leaving Russia. Nevertheless the U. S. S. R. impressed...
...addict, despite the compelling, almost hypnotic quality of the characters. Non-Fiction THE HERITAGE OF THE CATHEDRAL- Sartell Prentice-Morrow ($3.50). Offering the layman a rich interpretation of church architecture through the ages, this work should provide absorbing reading for conscientious tourists, many a pleasant hour for those who stay at home. WAR IN THE PACIFIC-Sutherland Den-linger and Charles B. Gary-McBride ($3). What every U. S. citizen should know about the Navy, and how it will defend the interests of the U. S. if and when a war with Japan breaks. The odds are in favor...