Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Medical collaboration having fared better than other forms of international amity, Germans and Frenchmen, Britons and Italians, hobnobbed in great goodwill at their tenth Congress. Jittery Poland's, Estonia's and Yugoslavia's doctors at the last moment were ordered to stay home. But so many bigwigs were allowed to attend that the delegates told each other there could be no war while they were away from their armies. In beribboned and bemedaled uniforms, they made the staid lobby of the Willard Hotel gay. They also made excellent propaganda for peace. To experts' previews...
...Whenever the Church militant begins to march there is no force in the armaments of dictators which can stay its progress...
...years of college and four years of dental school be lowered for "sub-dentists" to practice among the poorer sections of the populace. "With only three years' dental school training, and no predental college courses," said Dr. Tench, "we could attract the boy who might otherwise stay on in his town and become a mechanic at the garage. [He could perform] simple fillings...
...sake," that syrupy expression which connotes lack of sincerity: in short, lack of something to say. Therefore, those people who attend art exhibits because it is the thing to do--pseudo-aesthetes who come well stocked with the latest artistic catchwords and cliches--are advised to stay as far away from this presentation as possible. The combination of internal thought and external appeal, the juxtaposition of the serious and the light, make this exhibit more than merely interesting. It has guts and is meant for living people...
...distinguished writer has been living abroad for thirty years and in diffident about; criticizing his native land after so brief a re-acquaintance. But he has just come from a two weeks stay in Washington where he gave serious attention to the workings of the government, and he found most of America's his could be blamed on Money...