Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fast Pesos. A Bacolod shopkeeper told an American: "In the old days, election day was like a fiesta. People stayed for hours to talk outside the polling places. Today they are afraid. As soon as they vote, they run back and stay in their homes. This is the loneliest election I have ever seen...
...spite of the deploring, however, the Chicago Plan worked. Though free to stay away, students flocked to classes where no attendance records were kept and no grades given. Gradually, the Great Books were worked into the courses, until this year they are 75% of the reading for the B.A. It was not all that Hutchins could have wanted, but it was close-an education not of books about books, but one which places ideas over facts, firsthand knowledge over secondhand interpretations, theory over practice...
...really as much sport? Smaller schools, lagging in man and coaching-power, could hardly keep up the pace. As Pennsylvania's switch to the platoon system last week indicated, however, the new game looked tempting to the schools that could play it. It seemed to be around to stay...
...much to be feared as any weapon in the arsenal, says Dr. Bush, is the submarine, now able to stay submerged for long periods "with only a small end of a pipe [the schnorkel] sticking out like a swimmer breathing through a straw," able to outrun pursuers and overtake fast convoys, and carrying long-range homing torpedoes which could be fired from a point beyond the earshot of sonar. The Nazis had been a few months too late with their undersea engine of destruction. But there it is now, says Bush, a heritage of German ingenuity: "one of our greatest...
...Stay-at-homes may see the game over WBZ-TV in the Union, Winthrop, Lowell, or Adams Houses. The Game will also be broadcast over WHDH...