Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bobby's box, with the idea of finding out whether brain work consumed any physical energy. As I recall it, they never proved that it did, or at best reached a Scotch verdict. But it was a man-sized calorimeter with all the fixings, and subjects would sometimes stay in it for a week or two, living on scientifically controlled rations and producing energy by pedaling a stationary bicycle...
Considerably improved over the two earlier issues of its post-war renascence, The Advocate presents, in its makeup as well as content, a publication that augurs greater triumphs for the coming year. It has unquestionably returned to stay...
...brief stay at Chicago was the last stop on the road to Harvard. Dean Thayer invited him to become Story Professor of Law, and 1913 found him Carter Professor of Jurisprudence. At Dean Thayer's death in 1916, Professor Pound became Dean of the Law School. He was the first men graduate of the School to hold that post...
This week, as Mrs. Truman wavered fretfully between rally and relapse, the President decided to stay on in Grandview indefinitely. To an expression of sympathy, he replied: "She's sat up with me many times when I needed her, and I want to reciprocate when she needs me. Whenever she wakes up, she wants to talk to me. I want to be there...
...slum neighborhoods, the runt gets picked on. "I had to fight to stay alive," Billy recalls, "and I always lost." But he always came back for more. One day he came back with a heavy lock dangling at the end of a strap. He knocked out two of his attackers and the rest beat it. Billy learned the lesson: plainly, all men are not created equal-but there are equalizers...