Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Should the committee find that the yearbook can be published without losing money, the vote for the yearbook will stand. Otherwise the class will do without its annual...
...giving the Sphinx Club the okay, the Council reversed its original stand of last Thursday, when it voted to table the club's charter until such time as a full report had been made to the Council on the state of the club system at the College...
...small arena at Cuenca wants for its grand festival. But before this corrida occurs, Luis goes into a slump. An older matador is killed by a bull, Luis' girl and his best friend are killed together in an automobile crash, and Luis Bello can no longer stand up to the bulls. For the first time in his career, he is afraid of the horns. Forced into the Cuenca corrida, Luis conquers his fear and regains his bull fighting spirit...
Each day when school let out, the boys & girls would stop by his stand. Sometimes he gave them bananas and sometimes a nickel for bubble gum. Then he would ask them all about school and what they wanted to do when they grew up. Charley told his friends that he was going to leave a fortune to the kids. "They'll remember old Charley," he used...
...small bank building.* Last week at Big Steel's annual meeting, only 350 stockholders (out of a total of 228,000) bothered to come. But not even all of them could find a place to sit; for three sweltering hours 50 of them had to stand in a cramped, stuffy room...