Word: stays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...held in 1912, and it cannot be denied that it has in its favor some very attractive features, at least from the point of view of those whose unfortunate duty it will be to police the sturdy participants. Sequestered in the harbor of Amsterdam during the evenings of their stay in the Low Countries, the brawn especially selected by the United States to keep it at the pinnacle of the world's athletics will not be in any great danger of deteriorating. The few weeks spent in Paris in the summer of 1924 must indeed have been a revelation...
Approval was given to the visit of the 150-pound crew at Kent School for the first three days of the spring recess. The stay in Connecticut will close with an informal race with the schoolboy crew on April...
...were traveling away as they still do from their home state universities, to Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, Virginia produced, as it still does, professional men almost exclusively-lawyers, doctors, architects, journalists. Few scions df the aristocracy-that-was became bank clerks, bondsellers, storekeepers. And if they were going to stay on the land, as gentlemen farmers, they did not go to college, unless it was to make friends and carouse. Martial, unruly or younger sons went to Virginia Military Institute. A few technically inclined ones went to Virginia Polytechnic...
Clarence S. Darrow's forecast for Negroes, as revealed to Negroes at Washington, D. C., last week, contradicted Dr. Hankins. Said Amateur Sociologist Darrow: "The [Negro] breed is not running out. They are here and are here to stay. They are not going to Liberia. The white people don't want them to go. If the colored people should try to leave in any general exodus in any Southern state, they would probably be met by force to keep them where they are. Somebody has got to work. We Nordics are not going...
...outbreak of the Great War he obtained a commission in the medical service and spent three years fighting in the tropical climate of South and East Africa. During his stay there he contracted malaria and found after the war that he was unable to live in England because of the climate and unable to continue his medical work because it was too great a strain. As a consequence of this he retired to the island of Capri in the Bay of Naples in 1918, where he has been studying and writing since...