Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...School graduate himself in 1913, the Senator admitted that his first collegiate loyalties stem from undergraduate days at Yale. "But I'm willing to stand up for Harvard Law," he chuckled, "even though I can't stand up very loudly while I'm on the Board of the Yale Corporation...
...Stand by Your Posts." One enterprising reporter discovered why. In a grim moment of Chinese history, Peiping's staid Municipal Council had had a grimly amusing idea: a whole battalion of potential
...Communists. Through a crack in the rear window shutter (the press was barred from the theater), the reporter watched the girls, "sitting erect and in good order," being addressed by a police official. "During this time of our Government's general mobilization," the official said, "you should stand by your posts and remember your duty to your country. [Your part] is as important as city walls and regular garrison troops." They should find out, he added, "what lies within the hearts of your guests and influence them toward .correct thinking." If they discovered a Communist they should "delay...
...original claim holders sold out early. Writes Lewis: "When Alvah Gould sold, for less than $500, his half interest in the Gould & Curry, he boasted of having duped his fellow Californians; but his claim yielded 15 millions, and Gould ended his days operating a peanut stand in Reno...
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