Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record of the visitors is not particularly impressive and the University ball players should have little serious opposition to stand in the way of a twentieth win for the season. The Villanova group has been beaten by Holy Cross and Boston College in its trip through New England, both nines which have fallen before the Crimson sluggers...
...Society does not stand alone in deploring the 18th amendment as a "blemish" on the constitution. Its subject matter is not a matter of political principle or organization such as truly befits a constitutional provision, but rather meet concern for a police regulation. And certainly the publicity of drunkenness has increased to proportions which do not alarm the alarmists and That, however, a speedy replacement of the amendment itself and state laws similarly stringent, is really called for, constitutes another matter, constitutes in fact a problem which all the wisdom of the nation is needed to solve...
...feeling that the Russian Government is not yet to be trusted. The post-war flurry of the "Bol-shevist menace", with other absurdities of the time, has passed; but the mysterious motives of the Soviet Union have not yet been brought to light. The United States, as things stand at present, does more business with Russia than England has been doing with the facilities she afforded the agents of Moscow; and it would seem better to trade ex officio with a viper than to give him headquarters in the official bosom...
Philadelphia, Penn, May 23, 1927--Hopes of University of Pennsylvania partisans that the Red and Blue will stand among the leaders of American intercollegiate track and field competition at the close of activities on Franklin Field, Saturday, received added stimulus here today by the announcement that Folwell Scull, leading Penn sprinter, will be in condition to too the mark in the preliminaries of the 100 yard dash Friday afternoon...
...show you. That's the stone hammer that the Indians were going to kill Captain John Smith with the time that Pocahontas rushed in and saved him. The old chief I got it from told me that. I was five years old and so drunk I could hardly stand up the day I took it out of his tent, after he'd been killed in a fight...