Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exercises opened promptly at 2 o'clock with a review of the scouts, who filed around the Stadium and before the reviewing stand where the officers of the local councils sat. The colors were then raised, the pledge of allegiance given and after the audience and the scouts sang "America" the field events began...
These ten names are arranged in the order of the number of votes received by the respective candidates and will stand in this order on the official ballot. Twenty candidates for nomination in all were named, the remaining ten candidates standing in the following order in the number of votes polled in the posted ballot: Samuel Smith Drury '01, Charles Pelham Curtis '83, Benjamin Bowditch Thayer '85, Henry Osborn Taylor '78, Henry Smith Thompson '99, David Abram Ellis '94, George Rublee '90, Robert Patterson Perkins '84, Robert Hooper Stevenson, Jr. '97, and John Lord O'Brian...
...Hereafter, in all lecture halls, section rooms, and other meetings, members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will arise upon the entrance of the instructor and will stand at "attention" until he directs them to be seated, or until he has taken his seat...
...Regulations, and when making reports to the sergeant-major or acting sergeant-major at ceremonies such as guard mounting (paragraph 351, Manual of Interior Guard Duty, U. S. Army, 1914) or other formation where the non-commissioned officer receives reports for the officer in charge. All cadets, however, should stand at attention when addressed by, or addressing, a non-commissioned officer in the discharge of his duties...
...play becomes rather noisy and boisterous as it progresses, and then suddenly veers off into a sentimental channel with ardent wooing on board a steamer bound for Bermuda. Of course when we are in December sanity we would not stand for such stuff, but right now when the very essence of June is within us, we can go to Ye Wilbur and laugh heartily or sigh and pray to some god to put us on that steamer. The ankle in question is at all times lovely, and it is the most prominent part of the rather confused plot...