Word: standing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...went into Sanders tonight to attend Mr. Clapp's lecture I found a crowd of disappointed men coming out, preferring (as one of them said) "to stay away rather than stand up for an hour and a half." It was these men of whom I thought as I sat on the floor beside a venerable gray haired lady who slept peacefully through all, and not of any discomfort of may own--for of course I was an outsider...
Professor Palmer says that the war is a very unrighteous one and that the English have not a leg to stand on; but--that nevertheless, it would be a great catastrophe if the English should get beaten...