Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past week by the CRIMSON, tutoring establishments, without the College walls, are non-existent at Columbia and Williams. At Brown 5% of the undergraduates use the schools; and at Dartmouth it was estimated that 30% have called on a "cram bureau" at one time or another during their stay in Hanover...
...French President has ever completed a second-seven-year term. The only one who has ever tried served two years. Last week President Lebrun indicated that he would stay in office only so long as the present international crisis lasts. Gallic wits predicted that in that case he would have to serve his full term...
...symphony concerts by culture-maddened parents often conceive a permanent dislike for symphonic music. Symphony boards of directors have long wondered how to make these adolescents take it and like it. Six years ago, Philadelphia's platinum-blond Conductor Leopold Stokowski suggested a solution: make the parents stay away. Thereupon he started a series of "Concerts for Youth," sold tickets to youth only (between 13 and 25), got "bouncers" to patrol the aisles of the staid Academy of Music with orders to throw out anyone who looked overage...
...British philosopher stated that there are there courses open to America today. She can state her neutrality, and stay out of the next war; or state her neutrality and enter the war--although this is unlikely now. "However," he said, "more good will be done by making it appear that she actually will come...
...blow high C's; the reason for this misapprehension is that in general Louis isn't playing as great jazz as he was ten years ago--for the very good reason that he was just about making jazz at the time and peaks like that are impossible to stay on. Now the critics listen to him and compare him to his greatest period and say that it isn't as good. Of course not--but despite occasional of-nights, his playing is still a great deal better than anybody else's. For samples of Louis at his greatest...