Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There will never be a man on your staff big enough to 'stand in Lindy's shoes...
Meanwhile. Yale's probable stand in regard to this policy is fairly certain since already four opponents have expressed a desire to continue non-scouting agreements next year. The Yale News...
...fact that the issue is clear, that true situation is extremely simple should make the decision clear and easy. The frog thirty years ago was out to do or die, and by this time must have accomplished something. The tradition about horned frogs will stand or fall with him, and somebody should be satisfied with the result. Having appealed to Caesar, Caesar's decision must be accepted, even though Caesar be only a horned frog...
...Aroused by the university's needs, U. S. Ambassador to Germany Jacob Gould Schurman, once a Heidelberg student, last week undertook to raise the fund. Founded in 1385, surrounded by wooded hills on which the ruins of Heidelberg Castle in the state of Baden still stand, Heidelberg finds that antiquity and a picturesque setting cannot provide for material needs. The main building is cluttered with debris. New buildings, lecture rooms for 200 students are needed...
...Circus. A little ridiculous tramp, very hungry and without funds, was standing beside a pickpocket. The pickpocket grabbed from a rich man a watch, a wallet, saw that he had been observed, dropped the wallet & watch into the little tramp's pocket, slunk off. Pursued by the pickpocket the little tramp at last became aware of the fat purse that he was carrying. Pleased, he walked over to a hot-dog stand and bought himself a sausage; then he looked at his new watch. The proper owner of watch and wallet, approaching the little tramp, grabbed for his property...