Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average Freshman is to stay in college, he must be inspired and stimulated to intelligent study by able and competent teachers, and should not be left to the tender mercies of young, inexperienced, section-men, who are already overburdened with their own research work. Young instructors who have never taught before, are eminently unsuited to bear the lion's share of Freshman instruction. Because of the pressure of their own needs, they have not the time to guide the Yardlings, or the experience to teach them as they should be taught...
During my four years at sea, I found that engineers used the Ship's library more than Master, Mate and Steward put together. Often I used to stay awake in my watch below reading Plato, Virgil and Homer, and before I knew it someone would knock at my door and shout '"one bell" which my seafaring friends know to mean "time to get up and report below...
...Shortly after his arrival at Hot Springs he received a warm letter of welcome from Arkansas' Governor Bailey and letters from Little Rock's acting Mayor and Chamber of Commerce president, welcoming him to their city for a speech he was scheduled to make there after his stay at the spa. The facts that Chicago's Mitchell is the first Negro Democrat to sit in Congress and a New Dealer besides had all to do> with these receptions...
Congressman Mitchell's stay in Arkansas, darkened by this incident, ended in something of a personal triumph with his speech at Little Rock before a mixed audience to which he was introduced by U. S. District Attorney Fred A. Isgrig. But he was not ready to forget. On his return trip he rode the Jim Crow car of another railroad without being told. When he got back to Chicago, Congressman Mitchell, a lawyer himself, hired another lawyer to see what could be done about...
...Texas he noted that most citizens seemed satisfied to stay there in spite of one who declaimed: "If they gave me hell and Texas, I'd rent out Texas and live in hell." Oklahoma was one long dust storm. He felt he could not improve on the seventh-grade essayist who wrote: "Dust, that terrible word dust, when we hear the word our mind turns to thinking of coughing, choking particles that come from somewhere to make our days unpleasant. . . . One thing we can be proud of United States dust storms are the latest thing...