Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...choice, I think I'll go down and see what I can do with the farm." The late Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, tall and handsome brother of Texas George, founded the first Protestant mission in Brazil, for 31 years was a missionary bishop in that country. His stay there resulted in Brazilian nicknames for his son and his nephew. "Big Tui," the son, was Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving II, today the stalwart, handsome dean of the Episcopal Cathedral in Garden City...
...France, too, has fallen off since 1914. While her population went from 39,600,000 to 42,000,000, her cereal production went from 31,000,000 acres to 22,500,000, for example. Last week France's 5,500,000 farmers and farm laborers were ordered to stay on the land, keep out of cities, work...
...dresses, but the '40 debs wore demure Court gowns of white. Two ventured crinolines, Lady Cecilia Fitzroy, cousin of the Duke of Grafton, Miss Mary Philippa Gary, niece of Viscount Falkland. Since Britain is bent on making this a democratic war, privates in uniform did not have to stay off the dance floor, as in 1914-8, twirled about the Great Room of the Grosvenor on a social par with their officers. With healthy appetites, debs and escorts gobbled large slices of the vast cake when it was finally and solemnly cut by the five hostesses, but of whoopee...
Once there was a young rat who couldn't make up his mind. Whenever the other rats asked him if he'd like to come out with them, he'd answer "I don't know." And when they said, "do you want to stay at home?" he wouldn't say yes or no either. He'd always shirk making a choice. One day his aunt said to him, "Now look here! No one'll care for you if you carry on like this. You haven't any more mind than a blade...
Jerome Frank knows that business bigness is here to stay. As one of the backstage voices helping to shape New Deal fiscal policy, he plumps regularly for reconstruction rather than mere reform. He is sure the impediments go much deeper than SEC red tape. Like any big businessman, he wants new outlets for new investment; a theorist, he sees the unscrambling of utilities as just that. To force it, he will render increasingly unpopular decisions; fewer & fewer friends will friendly Jerome Frank have. Consoling him is his strong belief that friends and foes have an ultimate community of interest...