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Word: stays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church and university such as President Eliot of Harvard and Bishop Manning, boldly backed Britain and France. America thought after the war that this would never happen again, but the familiar utterances have returned within the last month to haunt and harass the spirit of a nation determined to stay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOUSE IS HAUNTED | 10/24/1939 | See Source »

...want Germany to win the war, but at the same time, understand, I want the United States to stay out of it. So does Germany. Hitler knows the United States will be the deciding factor in a world war, and he also knows we cannot fight on his side, for that reason he wants us out and he is right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Postal cards and letters from the children indicate that they are not only enjoying their country stay, but are healthy and well" (The latest air raid of the British was eminently successful, and all returned without the loss of a plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Double Talk | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Since Big Business, in the Parkesian view, tends to restrict production and employment instead of cutting prices, and since 50 years of trust-busting have shown the impossibility of making them stay busted, another course becomes appropriate: "If a job in corporate industry constituted a property right . . . industrial managers would normally find it profitable to keep their workers fully occupied," thus expanding production, lowering prices. Parkes argues that workers would give up a fixed wage if they were free to choose their industries, guaranteed (within limits) a job, and if wages varied suitably with corporate profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Constructive Anatomy | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...hate the music business" . . . "They won't let you stay at the top. They won't give you a chance to breathe" . . . "Autograph hunters? To hell with them! Often I've played for 2,500 or 3,000 people and 1,000 would stand around the stand staring at me. They aren't listening--only gawking" . . . "Then they want autographs. Nothing doing! I'm too busy with my job. Sometimes I let my valet sign my name, and they're just as satisfied." . . . "My friends say I'm a damned fool. They say that these people made me. Want...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

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