Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third day of City of Flint's stay, Ambassador Steinhardt, armed with new instructions from Washington, talked over the case with Foreign Commissariat officials. Hour and a half later the Soviet radio announced that Russia was releasing the ship on condition that she leave Murmansk at once. Next day Ambassador Steinhardt slapped down his trumps. With an indignation compatible with the strength of his position, he: > Accused the SovietGovernment of refusing to cooperate in providing information...
Scully refused to be fired, denied that Rosanoff had the authority. When pretty Mrs. Marjorie Reuman, Rosanoff's daughter, arrived to take over, she found the humorist encamped in his disputed office, determined to stay there until his term expired in 1942. One-legged Mr. Scully had fortified his position with 300-lb. Pete Ladjimi, who once served 30 days for assault & battery upon the person of ex-Champion Wrestler Gus Sonnenberg...
Last week Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring* announced the results of the tests: the Army will have the new tailoring, trousers and all, but will stay in olive drab. "For all-weather, all-year-round wear," said Mr. Woodring, who wore khaki in the A. E. F., "and for all types of terrain, the olive drab color proved far superior to slate blue so far as camouflage was concerned...
...have a Continental look," wrote the editor of the British Lancet last week, "for every morning every window is filled with bedding hung out to air in the sunshine. The scene is cheerful, but the householders are depressed; for the habit of bedwetting, in guests who are likely to stay a long time, is a serious tax on hospitality. . . . Somewhat unexpectedly, eneuresis has proved to be one of the major menaces to the comfortable disposition of evacuated urban children . . . and at a time of widespread domestic crisis we make no apology for offering a few dogmatic opinions and recalling some...
From the American point of view I think we should ask ourselves three questions: should we fight someone else's war? Can we defend ourselves if we stay out? What will probably be the not results in the spread of nihilism here if we enter another devastating European...