Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Williamsburg, Va., the A.P.'s Kent Cooper told a newsmen's banquet that it was not that simple: government control of the press would obviously mean political control. The U.S. press would stay free, he said, provided it kept nothing from the people, and kept "defending the right of all to express their views through the printed word...
...Holbein's Steps. The son of a Devonshire goldsmith, Hilliard was trained as a jeweler, started painting miniatures at 13. He carefully studied the work of Holbein, who had done several miniatures during his stay in England a few years earlier. Before he was 25, Hilliard's work was in demand at court. Gay and handsome, Hilliard enjoyed himself. Of the artist's life at court, he noted: "It behooveth that he be in heart wise, as it will hardly fail that he shall be amorous." He was appointed limner and goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth...
Many of his boys, though in their teens, can hardly read or write when they arrive. That doesn't bother Starr, but he does insist on an I.Q. of at least 90. Most kids stay about two years: Starr believes that it is as bad to stay too long as to leave too soon ("They get over-institutionalized"). He thinks it easier to influence a boy at 17 or 18 than at twelve...
Domestic growers were unanimously pleased with it. They should have been. Their quotas were boosted a generous 20% above their average 1936-45 output. And they were promised subsidies if they were good enough to stay within their quotas. On the other hand, foreign producers in such countries as Peru got quota cuts. Though small, these cuts will put a painful crimp in their dwindling dollar balances. And Cuba, though it got an increased quota, was also saddled with a clause which, in effect, threatened revocation of her quota if she failed to settle any private claims that U.S. nationals...
Plaster dust had chased out only one Claverly resident, a final check of figures by the Housing office revealed yesterday. With most of the plaster down and reconstruction beginning, the residents have decided to stay where they were rather than go to the trouble of moving...