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Word: stays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short skirts, and other marks of the superior western civilization. They find it hard to understand how, after being exposed to the cultural advantages of the Illinois university, she could so far revert to barbarism as to marry a prince of her own race, and what is more, to stay by his side when he is in danger. There are some, however, who admire the Princess for doing so, when she might be living in the luxury of Hollywood, writing for the syndicated papers and endorsing cold creams. One sympathizes with the difficulty of the troops, who must put down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SHOOT IF YOU MUST--" | 1/27/1927 | See Source »

...corrupt the children's morals, and he can't stay in, our Yard...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/25/1927 | See Source »

...that it is present again in a mild form. We admit we are powerless to act against it, because the actual cause of influenza has never been determined. The advice we give anyone suffering from a cold or the grip at this time of the year is either to stay in bed, or at home, and not to circulate the germ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Influenza | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...confused with K'ung Hsiang Hsi, a relative, China's representative at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial, who was honored during his stay in the U. S. last summer with an LL.D. from Oberlin University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Great-Grandson 72 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...murderers can eustly be cured with a few yards of hemp, but those crimes of which we speak strike far deeper into the natures of their perpetrators. Among the proscribed we should like to place; those he men who go around these zero mornings without coats: people who stay up all night before an examination; people who have six exams...

Author: By A. L. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

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