Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permanent professors, reinforced by others on loan from the world's theological schools, universities and churches, would teach them such subjects as modern evangelism, Christian ethics and pedagogy, sociology, the Ecumenical Movement. Courses would be divided into three-month periods, but students at Celigny would be urged to stay for at least six months before going forth "to present the Christian message to [Europe's] demoralized young people . . . and to build with them new forms of moral and social life on Christian foundations...
...most moving pages of the book describe Bernard's love affair with a married woman, who finally decides to give him up and stay with her husband and child. One of her main reasons is that her husband supports her ailing, aged father and mother, whereas Bernard can give her nothing but love...
...Electrical Appliance Co. to order washers and refrigerators. The West Frankfort bank was fairly bursting with miners' deposits. Telephone installations were at an all-time peak and the "42" Cab Co. was doing a record business. Illinois miners had enough money, a United Mine Workers official figured, to stay out six months. From Pennsylvania came the same kind of reports. From Welch, W.Va.: "We're behind you, John, go your full length...
William Lyon Mackenzie King had not said he was going anywhere. Nevertheless, Conservative Leader John Bracken rose in the House of Commons one day last week and hoped that the Prime Minister would have a "satisfactory stay and an early return." Then the CCF Party's M. J. Coldwell jumped up, eyes atwinkle, to add his wish for "a fruitful visit to Great Britain." Having thus playfully baited the Prime Minister into talking, they settled back to hear what he would...
...controversial Dominion-provincial conference, one of his biggest reasons to stay at home, was now ended. More importantly, London, which had been trying to get Mr. King overseas for an "Imperial Conference," had changed its tune. It was now calling the current London meetings of the Empire's prime ministers merely "consultations." And it had decided not to limit conversations to Empire subjects such as trade and defense, which Mr. King did not want to discuss. It had broadened the agenda to include the problems of the atom bomb and Germany, which Mr. King did want to discuss...