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Word: standest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past speak to us of those great patriots whose voices once resounded in these halls. Well may we say to ourselves in the words which the Captain of the Lord's host spoke unto Joshua: 'Loose thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place whereon thou standest is holy.'" When the joint session adjourned, the Legislature passed a bill permitting it to sit once a year at Williamsburg. After the ceremonies, the party inspected the H-shaped Capitol building, whose handmade bricks had been specially fashioned in a nearby brickyard, admired the reproduction of the chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Royall Capitol | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

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