Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blagden and Fordyce (Philosophical Transactions, London, Volume LXV, Part II) showed that a man in good health can stand for a period of eight minutes an exposure to a temperature of 250° F. without suffering any ill effects, and without a serious rise in body temperature, while a beefsteak exposed at the same time to the same environment [and fanned by bellows] was cooked in 13 minutes. . . . WILLIAM B. BEAN, M.D. University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio...
Substantial Change. What that meant was becoming increasingly clear. Even Arthur Vandenberg was privately convinced that the Administration's bill could and would have to stand substantial change. He had already publicly tipped his hand by agreeing with a suggestion of World Bank President John J. McCloy. The proposal: that ERP include a formula for "progressive credits"-i.e., make the amount of aid extended dependent on the rate of the economic recovery...
...Stand ready, for the next five years, to buy all the world's nonperishable materials which cannot find normal commercial markets anywhere else. Such a promise would galvanize European production, he argued, and bring frightened private capital out from under...
After a red-faced 80 minutes, the General was excused from the witness stand. Next day a White House announcement said that he would "continue as White House physician...
...Stand up and relax, the exam isn't tomorrow." His roommate banged into the room, articulating something about a new time for Vag's section. Vag tossed his pencil behind the desk again and noosed up his tie. "Let's go get drunk," he said...