Word: stays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny, single-engined Aeronca, Pilots Bill Barris and Dick Riedel, of Fullerton, Calif., broke a ten-year-old flight endurance record (726 hours), vowed to stay aloft until they had passed 1,000. To refuel, they dropped to five feet from the ground, picked up fuel, oil and food from a car speeding down the runway at 70 miles an hour...
Avery, now 75 years old, had not planned his loneliness. When he goaded President Wilbur Norton and four vice presidents into leaving last year (TIME, May 31 et seq.), he persuaded three other vice presidents, who had also threatened to resign, to stay on. But he neither forgot nor forgave their participation in "the Norton conspiracy" to curb some of Avery's dictatorial power. Last month he decided how he would take his reprisal...
Spring is here to stay, and so is seven ninths of the batting order of the freshman baseball team. Only the corners of the outer prairies remain unsettled as the yardling nine takes on Brown at 1:30 p.m. today on Soldiers Field...
...Harvard, aiming to stay at the top of the League ladder as long as it can, Herbie Neal, a converted pitcher, remains in the lineup in right field...
During the war, Empson worked in England for the BBC; he married, and then returned to Peking National University, where he intends to stay. Last summer, however, he taught at Kenyon College, in Ohio-a gentle, wiry little man who, as one friend put it, "wandered around in a cloud of black beard, talking animatedly to himself...