Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This year we have really learned the art of war," he shouted from the edge of the reviewing stand. "Our achievements have been stupendous. One of the great differences between our annual maneuvers and those of our neighbors is that ours takes place midst a friendly working class which coöperates with our troops...
...trenches the nighttime is the worst. Daytime in a front line trench is often strangely quiet, soldiers can sleep, scratch, write letters, but with evening stand-to, and the first blue Very light that curves up into the sky comes a cold tightening of the nerves, a ceaseless dread...
...press correspondents on the morning of the state banquet the usually genial Baron angrily denied the rumor that he intended resigning from politics. Forgetting the caution he was wont to observe on account of a weak heart, the elderly soldier waxed in vehemence. "A soldier never deserts! I will stand by Seiyukai and I will defy my enemies, whoever they...
...driver, whose stand is at the subway island in the middle of the Square, told the representative of the CRIMSON the story of the arrest as he had seen it. "Cohen," he said, "was giving out the posters, with a crowd of people around him. He was standing by the traffic box when I saw him, and once he offered a poster to the cop in the box." It has since been determined that Kelly is the name of the officer who was then directing traffic...
...started his distribution at the gate opposite Leavitt and Pierce's at exactly 1.15 o'clock, and mentioned having posed for a Pathe News photographer. He diminished his stack of "Welcomes" by five hundred in less than three quarters of an hour, he said, and then changed his stand to the side-walk in front of the Coop. He also mentioned having posed for a Herald photographer...