Word: standed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether or not the men who are now calling signals on the first University elevens will stand the test of intercollegiate competition remains to be seen; only one of them, E. T. Putnam '30, has ever directed a Crimson team in an intercollegiate contest, and that was two years ago. But all of them have records or show signs of promise such as to lead even the most pessimistic of Crimson supporters to hope for great things...
Thus exalted famed Hearst columnist-editor Arthur Brisbane, last week, when the notorious, cruel, rapacious General Chang Tsung-chang put his back to the Great Wall of China and prepared for a last stand against the immensely superior armies of the new Chinese Nationalist Government, which now claims to dominate all China (TIME...
...strength to encompass his own defeat. For 3,000 years the Japanese have used this graceful and economical method of self defense. Jiu Jitsu must not be compared or confused with another often pictured species of Japanese wrestling, somewhat like capoeira, in which two 400-lb. bullies stand face to face and each endeavors mainly by pulling at the sparse clothing of his adversary to topple him over. Jiu Jitsu requires enormous training; Jap boys rise early to practice it before taking cold baths. Occidentals, while they will never be as good as lithe little yellow wrestlers, may become proficient...
Cameo features of distinctiveness, so that in profile and in full view each will stand out clear-cut and on its own merits...
...Brothers have had very few houses of their own. While their sound picture rival, Fox Film (with Movietone) has customers in the allied Fox Theatres, Warner Brothers have been obliged to depend upon the demand, insistent although it was, of strange and jealous exhibitors. With Stanley Co. it can stand shoulder to shoulder with other great amusement sellers− Paramount-Famous-Lasky, Loew...