Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Elis stand third in the League standings with six victories and five defeats. Harvard with three wins and eight losses, is fighting to stay in fifth place ahead of Pennsylvania and Columbia...
Then he spoke to the neutrals. To the weak ones, fearing Germany and Russia, he said that Britain's war desire is "that the small nations of Europe shall henceforth live in security, free from the constant threat of aggression." To the strong ones, anxious to stay out of this war and eliminate future ones, he looked toward a new, disarmed, mutually trusting body of nations. And here he spoke to the U. S. This new order could not be molded by England and France alone. To achieve the dream, "other nations must come in and help...
Archbishop Schrembs blamed the revolt on a minority of 50 families. But no great throng of erring children hastened to make their submissions. Last Sunday, many a parishioner worshiped before a gaudy statue in his home. Said Nick Gambatese, as his daughters prayed to the Holy Mother: "I stay home until I find out more about it." Nicola Scricca fixed up a big altar, told reporters: "Every day we pray here-my wife and four children. Today it was our 'Mass.' I read and they are the congregation. It is the best we can do. . . . We will make...
...Electric system, which fell into the bankruptcy courts Jan. 10. Biggest reorganization in history, it involves a utility empire that sprawls over 27 States, has contacts with 54 Senators, 307 Representatives, brigades of State legislators, spends around $94,000,000 a year on coal, wages, construction, supplies. Sure to stay in court for years, it will provide jobs for several trustees (not unusual price: $50,000 a year each), who will need corps of lawyers, accountants, statisticians, engineers, etc., to help them prepare a reorganization plan, administer the business, sue the former directors if necessary. A prime target...
...tobacco, so that the 20,000,000-lb. market promised to the Turks would make very little difference; 2) the British had on hand a two-and-a-half-year supply of U. S. tobacco, and being out of the market this year didn't mean they would stay out next; 3) during World War I, when Turkey was a German ally, Britons weaned themselves from sweetish Turkish, got the grown-up Virginia habit...